On 05/04/25 9:29 pm, Charles Plessy wrote: > Hi all, > > I just want to update you with a few words about the Gateway to NEW > project. (https://salsa.debian.org/newgateway-team) > > Our goal is to have an infrastructure and tools to host pre-upload > peer-review of the debian/copyright file of source packages before they > are sent to the NEW queue, in the hope of making them perfect and reduce > the rejection rate, thus accelerating the processing. > > At the moment there are rudimentary Salsa CI pipelines that aim at > providing a web-browsable view of the package contents that are relevant > for copyright checks (https://salsa.debian.org/newgateway-team), and > another repository hosting a checklist and hosting the reviews in its > issue tracker > (https://salsa.debian.org/newgateway-team/reviews/-/blob/main/.gitlab/issue_templates/Default.md). > > We explored two possible workflows, one where one issue contains all the > review, and one with one issue per review. The first one, simpler, is > gaining traction, but we are only three, so, the door is surely not > closed for other ways of operating in the future. > > I would be delighted if more people would join, as much on the review > side as on the pipeline development side. There is a lot to do, but we > can change Debian together!
Do you plan to integrate this into the existing salsa-ci-team/pipeline? Best, Nilesh
