[arch-dev-public] dependency rebuilds

[Paul Mattal]

Aaron Griffin wrote:
> On Dec 30, 2007 11:37 PM, Paul Mattal <paul at mattal.com> wrote:
>> 1) the package y maintainer(s) notices package x in testing and rebuilds
>> package y
>>
>> 2) the package x maintainer(s) is responsible to find all packages y and
>> rebuilds all such packages y against the new package x
> 
> There's a middle-ground here which I like, myself.
> 1.5)  the package x maintainer(s) is responsible to find all packages
> y and posts a todo list on the dashboard
> 
> I like this method, but at the same time, it requires one to
> constantly scan the todo lists to see if a package of yours is there.

A slight variation on this is to the todo list + what Damir did.. 
post to a todo list and *also* put a post on the arch-dev-public 
list. This way people get push notification, and also a place to 
track what they've done and what they haven't.

- P