-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 12:05:07AM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Anthony Towns (aj@azure.humbug.org.au) [051101 17:23]: > >> On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 12:41:09PM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote:
> >> > So, would anybody object if I set up a cronjob that emails the PTS > >> > whenever a (source) package propagates to, or is removed from, testing? > >> it's one of the things we agreed we wanted at the Vancouver > >> meeting. I think there was going to be a -testing-changes list or > >> something, perhaps? > > We agreed to both maintainer mails (but PTS might be more appropriate > > for that), and a summary to -testing-changes. > > IOW, whoever shows code up for any of the tasks has some bonus points :) > I have now a frst draft of a status-change mail system running. it > works from the archive mirror on merkel, and sends out mail to > <package>@packages.debian.prg, with Bcc to the PTS (under the > 'summary' keyword documented for this purpose). It turns turns out > that the PTS cannot by itself send mail to the "current maintainer" in > default of explicit subscriptions. > It does not yet produce -testing-changes emails. The list > does exist but seems to carry only upload announcements for > stable-security, for reasons not totally clear to me. These are announcements of uploads that have been propagated to testing-proposed-updates, fwiw. > Comments welcome. Thanks for running with this. Ideally, we would get this integrated on ftp-master, so that the mails could be triggered by britney rather than being done post-hoc; this would also let us associate package removals with comments from britney hints files, so that they could be incorporated into the mails. If you're interested in making this happen I'll be happy to give you any info I can; though tbh, if I understood this part of the system very well, I probably would have written a patch myself already. ;) Cheers, - -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDa0bEKN6ufymYLloRAgvjAKCJ2wI5ByedvrbLTYwC2T0uA8EdZwCgx6z4 MrmQ63BoEe91ggUCQI3pbs0= =1/wL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
