On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:27:46PM +0100, James Troup wrote:
> Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > What I am suggesting is that katie has a list of such cases (although
> > I'm not proposing a particular format):
>
> >From my point of view, such information would ideally be:
>
> o not centrally controlled, but package/maintainer(s) controlled[0]
> o trivial (both in terms of code and CPU use) for katie to obtain[1]
> o not unnecessarily waste space in places it's not needed[2]
>
> I'd love to see suggestions that satisfy those criteria, but was
> eventually someday going to fall back on something like Julian just
> suggested if I couldn't find anything better.
At a rough estimate, based on packages with open bugs, there are less
than two dozen "maintainers" who would (currently) use such a scheme.
I wonder whether we can use something like an autobot which accepts
messages of the form:
add-to: teTeX Maintainers <debian-tetex-maint@lists.debian.org>
Christoph Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
and copies them to the "maintainer". Other commands could be:
remove-from: teTeX Maintainers <debian-tetex-maint@lists.debian.org>
Christoph Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
delete-list: teTeX Maintainers <debian-tetex-maint@lists.debian.org>
new-list: teTeX Maintainers <debian-tetex-maint@lists.debian.org>
show-list: teTeX Maintainers <debian-tetex-maint@lists.debian.org>
I can't think of any other obvious ones. Katie (or the bot) would
store them in a DB of some sort and use them for looking up.
Does this sound somewhat reasonable?
Julian
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