On Sun, 5 Aug 2012 08:21:16 +0530
Parag N(पराग़) <panemade(a)gmail.com> wrote:
You are right but I am still finding the answer on what to do in
such
situations as we have no policy for that. In the past I have done some
reviews where even a package SCM is done but reporter didn't import
the package at all. For some packages I did it after waiting long.
Can we have any solution like block the packages after some time if
reporter will not import the package. That way such rel-eng scripts
can avoid listing those packages. If anyone want to takeover such
package ownership then he can just re-add the package SCM request or
submit a fresh review request.
Another thing, Its not always possible for a package owner to
instantly import the package once the package SCM is done. So, if we
still need to show such packages in needsbuilt then I see no solution
for this case.
Well, yeah, I would say in this case after some reasonable time if the
submitter hasn't built the new package and you haven't heard from them
you could revoke your fedora-review:+ on the review, and close it. If
they come back they can resubmit it.
I see that even if I will get my new package SCM done today and this
script is run, I can see my package appeared in needsbuilt list
whereas it has nothing to do with f18 mass rebuild as my package is
totally a new package. Isn't it a regular package process where we
actually have no restrictions on when to have a new package process
completed?
Sure, there's going to be some small number of packages in that state.
The thing is: If you get a package built and tagged into f18 before the
mass branch it's easily. If for whatever reason you wait until after
that you will need to not only fix rawhide, but the f18 branched
version and deal with an update in bodhi, etc.
So, it's to your advantage to fix everything you can now before that
happens and save yourself some more work later.
IMHO.
kevin