David Timms wrote:
At the moment, many .spec URLs that are hosted outside Fedora are taken down the moment or shortly after the process is complete. Hence it makes it difficult to learn from the efforts of others in a package review in Fedora because the .spec is no longer linked in the spec/SRPM urls provided by the submitter.This is only a partial help since it's not easily discoverable by a new user but it will keep you from having to browse the complete foleder list on the cvs server::The second issue is that browsing the cvs server is quite slow - mainly at the point where the "folder" has the complete list of {3000} package folders. This means we could immediately click through to the correct folder in the cvs server, rather than trawling from the top level.
http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewcvs/rpms/PKGNAME
Like Rathann, I'm against this if it's a manual requirement but if it were automated it would be useful. If you would be willing to contribute some code, the cvs request needs to become something that is entered into the package database. The bugzilla address will be entered as part of this so that the cvs admin can continue to verify the reviews. So it would be possible to automate adding a link to viewcvs at the end of this process.Any comments, rejections to this idea ?
In the meantime, if you think it is a good idea, it would be appreciated for others to do this in any case - if that is allowed ?
If a packager wants to do this themselves they are welcome to do it.
This could be useful but it would be a separate process for people to learn and a separate cvs instance that would have to be maintained. I'm not sure that we want to do this because of the overhead. At least, we'd want to get the pkgdb's automated closing of package bugs written first so we could see if we could make an automated opening as well.===Another idea along these lines would be to have a staging CVS server that the reviewer would be required to commit the original and changes to the spec under development. This could then be committed to the real cvs server after acceptance. The submitter would still put his srpms on his own url, not in the staging cvs server.This would make it simpler to get a live diff on what the submitter's changes have been, rather than viewing the spec as a whole and trying to find the changes.
(Note: This would require people, at minimum, to have signed the CLA before submitting their first package.)
-Toshio
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