On Sat, 16 Aug 2008, Dan McGee wrote:
On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Eric Belanger <belanger@astro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
On Sat, 16 Aug 2008, Dusty Phillips wrote:
Esteemed ArchLinux Developers,
Partially because Aaron asked for it and thinks it is cool and partially because all those [signoff] e-mails in my inbox are kind of boring to me (as a non-packager), I have implemented a web based signoff mechanism into archweb_dev.
https://dev.archlinux.org/packages/signoffs/
This is a thoroughly un-tested beta version that will probably break. I'm far too lazy/important/busy (depending how you perceive my levels of ambition/arrogance/available time...) to do my own testing, so please break it and report bugs.
It works pretty simple. All packages in testing are listed in the signoff page. If you test a package and deem it usable you can click the "signoff" link to sign off for it. If two or more people sign off for a package, the package 'approved' flag is set to true.
The 'approved' flag for a package (both i686 and x86_64 versions) should be set to true when the package has received at least one signoff per arch.
Apart from that bug, it looks nice and it would be more convenient than the ML expecially to keep track of the signoffs.
Yes and no. I can't think of an easy way to record the packager as having signed off, but it would be nice to know who exactly signed off rather than just doing the assumed signoff. For instance, I have built x86_64 packages before that I have no possible way of signing off on (GUI application or something), and in that case I do want multiple signoffs and my implicit one doesn't exist.
However, I can't think of an elegant way to do this. Anyone else?
-Dan
We could just stop assuming that the packager has automatically signed off and toggle the 'approved' flags after each arch has received 2 signoffs. Then, the packager will need to go to the web page and signoff his own packages (if he could test them, of course). Eric -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.