[arch-dev-public] dependency rebuilds

[Aaron Griffin]

On Jan 4, 2008 9:18 AM, Paul Mattal <paul at mattal.com> wrote:
> 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.

I like this one.

So ok, let me propose this:
With rebuilds, it's the library maintainer's job to find all dep packages.
There are then two choices:
   * build everything yourself, if you feel like it (yay!)
   * make a todolist and post on the arch-dev-public ML so we know
that there is a new rebuild todolist.

Sound like a good process?