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

[Otto Kekäläinen]

Hi!

Is anyone from the FTP Masters willing to collaborate on this?

I don't want to invest time in doing something that is supposed to
help the NEW review unless we actually have confirmation and
endorsement by FTP masters that this CI job is reporting correct and
relevant findings.


On Sat, 30 Aug 2025 at 22:47, Otto Kekäläinen <otto at debian.org> wrote:
>
> Hi FTP Masters,
>
> Would you like to collaborate on having better copyright related
> checks in Salsa CI?
>
> In Salsa CI we have now integration with lrc to automate license
> checking, and we could extend it to do even more checking, for which I
> filed https://salsa.debian.org/salsa-ci-team/pipeline/-/issues/478 for
> tracking.
>
> 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.
>
> - Otto