Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org> writes: > Hi Sean and everybody, > > Around 12 years ago, I proposed a peer-review system to increase the quality > of > the packages in the NEW queue. https://wiki.debian.org/CopyrightReview > > Maybe we could revisit the idea along these lines:
I like this idea, as an opt-in service to prepare for ftp-master review. I've been doing at least 25 NEW uploads for the past months, and debian/copyright is certainly the biggest manual time consumer for me. I've learned some tricks to get it right, but I also rely on ftp-masters to catch me when I miss something. There are corner-cases where I would like to have a discussion about some minor aspect, and I've been trying (although not always succeeding) to not pester ftp-masters with these minor questions. Having an opt-in service of people who want to perform ftp-master-like debian/copyright review of a package would be helpful for me. I don't find posting to debian-legal serving this function, where the advice received is often neither helpful or actionable. Using debian-legal for this discussion would be fine, maybe that makes it more contributory. It would also be good to write down some of the finer rules on some aspects of debian/copyright, such as how to deal with public domain contributions, vendored stuff where there is a known copyright holder but not mentioned in any file, how to deal with non-free DCO-like statements, etc. /Simon > > - a Salsa group into which people fork repos and run CI screens for > copyright, > license and missing source issues. > > - a peer-review system based on issues or MRs (for instance to a master > repository with a text file tracing the outcome of the reviews). > > - as of today people would use it to ensure their submissions to NEW are to > the highest standards and therefore the least likely to waste time of the > FTP team members. > > - the outcome of the NEW processing of the peer review is also recorded by > volunteers, allowing to better measure the achievements and usefulness of > the system. > > - The FTP team, if they wish, can provide feedback. > > - when the FTP team calls for new trainees, applicants who have a track > record > of peer reviews in that system can show it to the FTP team, who are free to > do what they want with this information. > > - If the FTP team recruits someobody who was peer reviewer and liked that > system, a positive loop is made. > > Have a nice day, > > Charles >
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