stretchplayer ready for upload

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 02:26:19PM +0100, Arnout Engelen wrote:
>I wanted to remind you that stretchplayer is, as far as I can see, 
>ready for upload.
>
>As I didn't want to nag, but didn't want this package to be forgotten 
>about either, I talked to Reinhard on IRC about a way to keep track. 
>Using usertags to tag the (ITP) bugs seems like a reasonable approach. 
>A report of tags can be obtained by:
>
>  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org;tag=upload-requested
>
>I'd say this tag could also be used on other bugs for which a fix is 
>available in our git.
>
>If this seems like a good idea to you, too, I'll document this at the 
>wiki.

Hmm.  If the intend is to maintain an overview of a relatively large 
pile of pending tasks then using usertags seem sensible to me.

But if the intend is to ping DDs then posting to our mailinglist is 
better IMO.



Related to this it might be interesting to compare with how the Perl 
team does it:

When a package is in progress, the distribution field in changelog is 
set to UNRELEASED, and when the (main) maintainer(s) feel the package is 
ready for release the field is changed to unstable (or experimental or 
whatever is appropriate).

This (ab)use of the release field is supported by tools like debchange, 
and is also used in the tool PET which AFAIK informs on IRC about 
pending packages.  PET was written for Subversion and currently does not 
support git - the Perl team is interested in that improvement, so if 
anyone here use IRC and see the benefit of that improvement, there is an 
open challenge for you.

To me it seems that if we go for a more formal way to hint packages 
being ready for release, then it makes sense to use (parts of) same 
approach the Perl team use.  Perhaps it then makes sense - instead of 
improving PET or in addition to that - to write a git hook which 
auto-applies usertags?


  - Jonas

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