review tool for new packages

[Cesare Tirabassi]

On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 11:45 +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote: 
> > Personally, I only see as a solution that of changing the
> > ubuntu-universe-contributors team participation from an open to a
> > restricted one.  Only contributors that can show a minimum level of
> > competence as well as a continued interested in Ubuntu and packaging
> > should be allowed to join this team, and therefore contribute new
> > packages to universe.
> 
> I tend to agree with changing the joining policy of
> ubuntu-universe-contributors. This leads to the question who adds people
> to the team? The administrators of that team would need to decide who is
> able to submit packages for review and who is not. Given that the group
> we are talking about is expected to still learn about packaging, we
> cannot use that as criterium.
> 

I think the difficult bit would be to agree on a policy; how to
implement that policy should just be a technical matter that (I think)
can be easily solved. For instance, a couple of ideas:

- to join some teams it is required to show having done a certain amount
of work as well as a continuity in doing so. For contributors, this
would mean to keep a public log of their contributions with links to
relevant LP bug reports.

- we have a running mentoring program, where mentors should be able to
assess the readiness of their pupils to produce a certain basic (and I
stress the word basic) standard of packaging, as well as the required
continuity or interest shown.

- we can set up a trial period, at the end of which new contributors can
be confirmed as full participants of the team or rejected (or perhaps be
granted an extension in case of personal problems, other real-life (tm)
commitments etc.).

In any case, kudos to you guys for REVU being up again!

Cesare

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