Re: merge reviews

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On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 10:19:14 +0200
Michael Schwendt <mschwendt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, 8 Jul 2010 14:28:13 -0600, Kevin wrote:
> 
> > So, here we are today with 242 still open merge reviews: 
> > http://fedoraproject.org/PackageReviewStatus/MERGE.html
> > (Plus a few that were closed when they shouldn't have been). 
> 
> Dumb question first: Where could I have found the URL of that page?
> 
> Several reviewers I know use the cached tracker page, which explicitly
> does NOT include the old merge reviews:
> http://fedoraproject.org/PackageReviewStatus/NEW.html
> 
> And that one is linked directly on the Package Review Process page:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_Review_Process#Tracking_of_Package_Requests

Yeah, perhaps that should link to
http://fedoraproject.org/PackageReviewStatus
?
Or both that and NEW?

> For each of the packages, assign its package owner(s) to the review
> ticket, let them perform the review themselves according to Fedora's
> Review Guidelines and when done, set the fedora-review flag to '?'
> and move the ticket to a final tracker. In other words, let the
> owners of these packages indicate that they have (re-)reviewed their
> own package.

Interesting idea. I fear we might get some maintainers who just want
the merge review to go away to just say "reviewed it, everything is
great" -> fedora-review +
without really checking anything. 

> Fedora package maintainers must be aware of the packaging guidelines
> anyway when they touch their package spec files, and they also need
> to repeat several checks whenever they includes upgrades (e.g.
> checking for license changes or added code/libs with legal problems).

Indeed. Might be worthwhile to try it out... 

kevin

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