RFC: CVS Admin with Flags (Version 1)

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Mon, 05 Feb 2007 18:55:24 -0500
wtogami at redhat.com (Warren Togami) wrote:

> Your comments would be very much appreciated.
> 
> Current Crappy CVSSyncNeeded Wiki Procedure
> ===========================================
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/CVSSyncNeeded
> 1. Request new package and branch.
> 2. Wait until somebody creates empty directories and edits
> owners.list. 3. Owner checks stuff in and builds.
> 
> Using the Wiki for this process has always sucked.  We could embed
> this process within the Bugzilla review tickets themselves.

Great. One less weird place to deal with sounds good to me. 

> Proposal: CVS Admin with Flags
> ==============================
> 1) Review is complete, fedora-review+
> 2) Owner writes in the Bugzilla comment something like:
> <Branches> <PackageName> <FedoraAccountName> <BugzillaName>
> FC-5 FC-6 foopackage bobjoe bobjoebugzilla at gmail.com
> 3) Set fedora-cvs flag to ?
> 4) CVS Admins get e-mail about fedora-cvs flag.  All context of the
> review is within the bug itself, so they can easily read all details 
> about the package and verify approval validity.  The Admin then
> creates CVS directories and sets owner.  Sets fedora-cvs flag to
> BLANK. 5) Owner checks in and builds.

Sounds great. 
How about also having the admin close the bug when they set the flag
back to BLANK in step 4? One less thing for the submitter to forget to
do. 

> 
> Benefits
> ========
> - This fedora-cvs flag eliminates the need for CVSSyncNeeded
> entirely.  An actual work queue with tickets!
> - fedora-cvs can be a simple canned query for CVS admins to see. 
> Awesome possibilities offered via RSS too... =)
> - You could also use the fedora-cvs flag with explicit instructions 
> within any bug to do special requests, like:
> "Please remove audacious-itouch.  We made some mistake.  Blah blah."
> 
> Notes
> =====
> - Unlike other flags, fedora-cvs is only BLANK or ?.  fedorabugs
> members may request fedora-cvs by setting it to ?.  This sends an
> e-mail to CVS Admins, signifying that attention is required.

Sounds great. 

> Warren Togami

kevin

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