Patch Pilot Report 2011-10-25

[Benjamin Drung]

Am Mittwoch, den 26.10.2011, 11:13 -0400 schrieb Andrew
Starr-Bochicchio:
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Scott Kitterman <ubuntu at kitterman.com> wrote:
> > On 10/26/2011 10:07 AM, Stefano Rivera wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Scott (2011.10.26_16:01:15_+0200)
> >>>>
> >>>> One tool to rule them all. ;)
> >>>
> >>> It's probably a somewhat archaic view, but that's not a very Unix
> >>> like approach to the problem.  If I was going to work on syncing a
> >>> package, I'd expect the tool for syncing packages to be the one I
> >>> wanted to use ...
> >>
> >> But there's a big overlap in functionality. Reviewing a merge and a sync
> >> both require test building, and a having a quick look at the diff and
> >> new changelog entries.
> >>
> >> Also, native syncs can't indicate sponsorship, yet (LP: #827555), so
> >> syncpackage isn't much help.
> >
> > For sponsoring, sure, but for your own uploads, not so much.
> >
> > I should probably remember I'm on break from Ubuntu development and not get
> > sucked into this, but I'll just throw out the idea that if sponsor-patch is
> > doing the job, then the issue isn't one of can/can't, but where the
> > functionality should most properly reside.
> 
> My impression is that sponsor-patch doesn't sync the package correctly
> indicating the bug filer as uploader, which is is the behavior that
> I'd like to see in syncpackage.

I think you mixed both names up. syncpackage does not yet support
indicating the bug filer as uploader. Until that is fixed, sponsor-patch
will subscribe ubuntu-archive. When this bug is fixed, sponsor-patch
will use syncpackage to sponsor a sync.

>  I think it just sets the bug to
> confirmed, subscribes ubuntu-archive, and unsubscribes the sponsors
> team. As such, it has more to do with sponsoring rather than syncing.
> So sponsor-patch seems like a good bike shed to keep it in. Of course,
> I'm not sure as none of this seems documented. (Just filed LP:
> #882085)

Yes, support for sync requests is not yet documented in the man page.

-- 
Benjamin Drung
Debian & Ubuntu Developer
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