[Debian-med-packaging] Sponsoring many uploads

[Afif Elghraoui]

على الأحد 27 آذار 2016 ‫08:54، كتب Andreas Tille:
> Hi Afif,
> 
> On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 02:56:30PM -0700, Afif Elghraoui wrote:
>>
>> I actually really like using the BTS to keep track of tasks. We could
>> have a much shorter RFS bug template for the Debian Med team that would
>> automatically set the owner as
>> debian-med-packaging at lists.alioth.debian.org --- this would still direct
>> the emails to us. When someone wants to take over sponsoring, he resets
>> the owner to be himself. In all cases, it's very clear who's responsible
>> for doing the task [1].
>>
>> What do you all think?
> 
> I admit that I prefer in principle following widely accepted procedures
> and thus I shuold consequently agree to the BTS usage as it is done for
> sponsoring in Debian.  On the other hand I try to keep the effort low
> for a single sponsored upload.  If I should deal with BTS I would need
> to send an additional mail to BTS to request the ownership

With bts(1) from devscripts, you don't need to send an email for these
kinds of things. You can just run

$ bts owner <bug-number> !

and it will send the email for you with the conrol command to give
ownership to $DEBEMAIL.

> after having
> checked that the bug is not owned by somebody else

presumably the BTS would email the previous owner (debian-med-packaging)
that someone else has claimed it

> and also need to wait
> until BTS will confirm my ownership (sometimes BTS is a bit slow).
> 

Oh, I don't know about this.

> What if we try the following alternative first:  A sponsor just answers
> the request on the mailing list "I'll take it (fully/in parts)" and
> potential other sponsor will see this on the same channel-  A racing
> condition will be solved by what mail reached the list first (or some of
> the sponsors might step back).
> 
> I'd withdraw my suggestion if we have three racing conditions causing
> useless work for some of us until May 1st. :-)
> 
> Opinions? 

I guess that would be similar.

> May be we should also sneak into the workflows of other teams
> - pkg-perl team has always proven to be a team we can learn from.
> 

I took a quick look over there. They say for people to request
sponsorship by posting to their mailing list or the IRC channel.

Thanks and regards
Afif

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