[Debian-salsa-ci] Can Salsa CI help decrease the number of rejects in NEW?

Joerg Jaspert joerg at ganneff.de
Sun Aug 31 11:06:55 BST 2025


On 17703 March 1977, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:

> I think Salsa CI could help the NEW queue processing if it increases
> the quality of the submissions and decreases the number of rejects. In
> Debian we also don't review any copyright for packages *already* in
> the archive, so having copyright related checks in CI could help
> elevate the overall archive copyright situation.

> Please let me know if this sounds useful and if it is worth investing
> more time in this idea.

In general we are not against people checking more before stuff gets 
uploaded. The more catched upfront, the better for us (and the queue and 
everyone). So yes, running such kind of checks before people upload is 
good, if they look at it before uploading.

-- 
bye, Joerg



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