Automating hosted projects?

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 19:07 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:

> Oh, come on. No need to play super smart. Isn't it obvious? I meant, can 
> the sanity checking be automated?

Part of the sanity checking is looking at what's requested itself.


> > If by 'it' you mean "have a giant pile of unmaintained pkgs that no one
> > is updating or caring for and are just wasting space", then yes,
> > repo.or.cz does that very well.
> 
> Lots of people are taking advantage of it precisely because it is 
> trivial to sign up. Yes, that means some of the projects will be 
> abandoned but look at the number of projects in fedorahosted.org which 
> haven't even bothered to edit the front page and provide a simple 
> description of what it is all about. I don't think we are doing anything 
> that is obviously better.

And do you think the quality of the projects  at fedorahosted is going
to get better or get worse if we make it happen automatically?

I think it will decline.

-sv