REVU, #ubuntu-packaging, and mentors.debian.org

[Andrew Starr-Bochicchio]

On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Scott Kitterman <ubuntu at kitterman.com> wrote:
> On 11/12/2011 01:08 PM, Allison Randal wrote:
>>
>> - The suggestion from the room was to close REVU now, and change the
>> documentation to point new packagers at #ubuntu-packaging and
>> #ubuntu-motu. It's not helpful to new developers to have a site running
>> and all the documentation saying to submit their packages there, when
>> they aren't going to get help there. The IRC channels are active, and a
>> good place to get help on packaging, and to get to know the Ubuntu
>> developers who might sponsor the new package, or advise the packager to
>> submit it to Debian instead.
>
> A web based tool to support publishing and reviewing packages seems somewhat
> orthogonal to IRC channels to get help packaging.  I think it's premature to
> shut down REVU until DEBEXPO is a full replacement (the most critical thing
> for me it was missing last I checked was the ability to give diffs of
> subsequent uploads of a package with the same version/revision.

This is bug #313388 on Alioth:

 https://alioth.debian.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=313388&group_id=100127&atid=413115

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