Re: Guidelines for packaging projects on Alioth

2006-04-29 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 09:56:06AM -0400, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 03:43:47AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > That's because sometimes it takes that long to find out whether the > > failure is really the maintainer's problem rather than the buildd > > admin's. > > Ok,

Re: Guidelines for packaging projects on Alioth

2006-04-27 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 03:43:47AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > That's because sometimes it takes that long to find out whether the > failure is really the maintainer's problem rather than the buildd > admin's. Ok, so it is not true that they can be distinguished automatically from failures whi

Re: Guidelines for packaging projects on Alioth

2006-04-26 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 08:08:50PM -0400, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 01:28:09AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > That's why we have FTBFS bugs. > > The efficiency of that is far lower. FTBFS bugs are manually submitted, > more then once I experienced a gap of weeks betwee

Re: Guidelines for packaging projects on Alioth

2006-04-26 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 01:28:09AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > That's why we have FTBFS bugs. The efficiency of that is far lower. FTBFS bugs are manually submitted, more then once I experienced a gap of weeks between the actual FTBFS and the bug report. Having the possibility of subscribing

Re: Guidelines for packaging projects on Alioth

2006-04-26 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 03:07:58PM -0400, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 07:31:13PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > Those cases can be treated differently than failures due to other > > > reasons, though. > > Uh, yes; and they are. But that's not the point. > > > > The poi

Re: Guidelines for packaging projects on Alioth

2006-04-26 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 07:31:13PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > Those cases can be treated differently than failures due to other > > reasons, though. > Uh, yes; and they are. But that's not the point. > > The point really is that build failures rarely need maintainer > intervention. Botheri

Re: Guidelines for packaging projects on Alioth

2006-04-25 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 11:36:47PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > Those cases can be treated differently than failures due to other > > > reasons, though. > > > > Uh, yes; and they are. But that's not the point. > > > > The point really is that b

Re: Guidelines for packaging projects on Alioth

2006-04-24 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > Those cases can be treated differently than failures due to other > > reasons, though. > > Uh, yes; and they are. But that's not the point. > > The point really is that build failures rarely need maintainer > intervention. Bothering the maintainer

Re: Guidelines for packaging projects on Alioth

2006-04-24 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 09:33:46AM -0400, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 02:21:05PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > Not in my opinion. Most failures I come around are things involving > > build-dependencies that aren't available yet. There's nothing a > > maintainer can or, i

Re: Guidelines for packaging projects on Alioth

2006-04-24 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 02:21:05PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Not in my opinion. Most failures I come around are things involving > build-dependencies that aren't available yet. There's nothing a > maintainer can or, indeed, needs to do about that. Those cases can be treated differently than

Re: Guidelines for packaging projects on Alioth

2006-04-23 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 09:46:08AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > I wanted to do that from the very first day of the PTS but Ryan Murray > never agreed to send mails on failed build. He said that many > compilations fail because of a (temporarily) broken buildd and that > it would generate too man

Re: Guidelines for packaging projects on Alioth

2006-04-22 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 03:29:06PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 22 Apr 2006, Mike Hommey wrote: > > > We would still need a way to reset the set of keyword of this > > > email when the maintainer changes. > > > > Or have simpler rules: you can't change the set of key

Re: Guidelines for packaging projects on Alioth

2006-04-22 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I would be in favor of a tighter integration between the PTS and the > @packages.debian.org email address too for example. > > I could implement a default subscription to the PTS for package > maintainers but you first need to solve several problems:

Re: Guidelines for packaging projects on Alioth

2006-04-22 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sat, 22 Apr 2006, Mike Hommey wrote: > > We would still need a way to reset the set of keyword of this email > > when the maintainer changes. > > Or have simpler rules: you can't change the set of keyword for > @p.d.o. > > If a maintainer wants some special set of keyword, he can still > subsc

Re: Guidelines for packaging projects on Alioth

2006-04-22 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 09:38:53AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Mike Hommey wrote: > > > - when the maintainer changes, we logically need to unsubcribe the > > > previous. So this must be recorded somewhere. (it's not a > > > subscription like the others

Re: Guidelines for packaging projects on Alioth

2006-04-22 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sat, 22 Apr 2006, Simon Huggins wrote: > On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 03:46:36PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Simon Huggins wrote: > > > I'll go look at adding the PTS to pkg-xfce now anyway. > > Thanks! > > Except as discussed on IRC in #alioth it sends to the first packag

Re: Guidelines for packaging projects on Alioth

2006-04-22 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sat, 22 Apr 2006, Andreas Metzler wrote: > I guess more people are interested in that, but this should be > different keyword triggered when debian-release marks a package for > bin-NMU, but not for the >10 separate uploads. I tend to agree. In fact I have a wishlist bug to show the bin-nmu on

Re: Guidelines for packaging projects on Alioth

2006-04-22 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Mike Hommey wrote: > > - when the maintainer changes, we logically need to unsubcribe the previous. > > So this must be recorded somewhere. (it's not a subscription like the > > others) > > Isn't that a non issue if you subscribe @p.d.o ? I didn't thought of subscribing t

Re: Guidelines for packaging projects on Alioth

2006-04-21 Thread Andreas Metzler
Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > I'd say upload-binary should be sent to the maintainer. It helps seing > when stuff are built and uploaded, [...] Hello, Eh no. I am not interested at all that the gazillion of build-daemons grab my package and upload it to Debian.[1] For me that's ju

Re: Guidelines for packaging projects on Alioth

2006-04-21 Thread Simon Huggins
On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 03:46:36PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Simon Huggins wrote: > > I'll go look at adding the PTS to pkg-xfce now anyway. > Thanks! Except as discussed on IRC in #alioth it sends to the first package affected if many packages are so I've not added this

Re: Guidelines for packaging projects on Alioth

2006-04-21 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 09:01:53AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Russ wrote: > > > In fact, upload notifications (the one that includes the changelog) are > > > not, so far as I can tell, sent to the maintainer by default and I end up > > > subscribing to the PTS to get those

Re: Guidelines for packaging projects on Alioth

2006-04-21 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Simon Huggins wrote: > Sure the config file was clearer on that than your mail certainly. :-) > Yes this makes more sense now. I must admit I still thought the PTS was > only really a way to get all the bugs for a package. > > Is there a reason that when you subscribe to th

Re: Guidelines for packaging projects on Alioth

2006-04-21 Thread Simon Huggins
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 08:49:58AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Simon Huggins wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 11:13:13PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > > * All existing packaging projects should use svnmailer to send SVN diffs > > > to the Package Tracking System. A

Re: Guidelines for packaging projects on Alioth

2006-04-21 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Russ wrote: > > In fact, upload notifications (the one that includes the changelog) are > > not, so far as I can tell, sent to the maintainer by default and I end up > > subscribing to the PTS to get those even for packages where I'm the only > > maintainer. I subscribe to debian-devel-changes for

Re: Guidelines for packaging projects on Alioth

2006-04-20 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 05:27:28PM -0700, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > No, this has never been the case. The maintainer gets the bug reports > > from the BTS directly and the PTS is useful for people who are not the > > maintainer but

Re: Guidelines for packaging projects on Alioth

2006-04-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No, this has never been the case. The maintainer gets the bug reports > from the BTS directly and the PTS is useful for people who are not the > maintainer but which do want to receive all the information that the > maintainer usually receives. In fac

Re: Guidelines for packaging projects on Alioth

2006-04-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Meanwhile, which is the PTS keyword that will control the receipt of svn > commit notifications? Looking at [1] the only one I can figure out is > "cvs". Can that be generalized and/or "svn" added? I know, it's a really > minor point, but why not sig

Re: Guidelines for packaging projects on Alioth

2006-04-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 11:13:14AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Furthermore, the PTS has a very fine-grained mechanism to select which > messages one wants to receive. Thus you can always work around any problem > by enabling or disabling a specific keyword on a specific subscription. Thanks fo

Re: Guidelines for packaging projects on Alioth

2006-04-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Frank Küster wrote: > > I even documented that configuration in the sample configuration file. > > That's what I've done with python-modules recently. Some people subscribe > > to the -commits list because they are very involved in the team and other > > just use the PTS to fol

Re: Guidelines for packaging projects on Alioth

2006-04-20 Thread Frank Küster
Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I even documented that configuration in the sample configuration file. > That's what I've done with python-modules recently. Some people subscribe > to the -commits list because they are very involved in the team and other > just use the PTS to follow t

Re: Guidelines for packaging projects on Alioth

2006-04-19 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Simon Huggins wrote: > On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 11:13:13PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > * All existing packaging projects should use svnmailer to send SVN diffs > > to the Package Tracking System. A sample configuration file is provided > > and I can help if you have tr

Re: Guidelines for packaging projects on Alioth

2006-04-19 Thread Simon Huggins
On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 11:13:13PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > * All existing packaging projects should use svnmailer to send SVN diffs > to the Package Tracking System. A sample configuration file is provided > and I can help if you have troubles installing it. Are you proposing that exi