Temporary REVU package storage

[Toby Smithe]

(CCing launchpad-users, as there are a couple of LP-related questions;
this is about using Launchpad as a REVU replacement)

On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 08:56 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> On Friday 17 August 2007 08:35, Neil Wilson wrote:
> > I'm sure the limits and space are very welcome. Bear in mind that
> > Launchpad has Private Package Archives as of next Wednesday and there
> > is still a beta running at the moment.
> >
> > Perhaps it is time to adopt the tool used for the rest of Ubuntu
> > development. Certainly as a package developer looking for sponsorship
> > it is a damn sight easier to use the Launchpad PPAs and an associated
> > bug than the REVU site. Launchpad even emails you when somebody
> > comments!
> 
> Let's not.
> 
> There is a mailing list you can get REVU comments from.

OK, I must have missed that; where is it? Last time I thought I had
checked, it was spam-ridden.

> The less we are entangled with Launchpad in our process, IMO, the more actual 
> work we can get done.  LP Is so slow that I find it's usability to be 
> extraordinarily marginal.

That's odd, because these days I'm finding it quite speedy.

> The only advantage PPAs have is that packages will get built on at least two 
> archs and so it would cut down on reviewing packages that turn out to FTBFS.

That is an advantage, and while it is nice to have everything on
Launchpad, I'm not sure that
  a) you can tie packages in PPAs to branches in Launchpad bzr
  b) there is the infrastructure for comments that REVU has, although
     the suggestion about bugs is handy. Again, though, it's not as
     centralised as REVU was.

> Can I dget from a PPA?

As far as I can see, yes.
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