Future of REVU and Debian Mentors

[Scott Kitterman]

On Monday 30 July 2007 04:42, Bram Neijt wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Wether joining REVU and Debian Mentors is a good idea or not, I can't
> say. However, I can tell you that I don't like the "everything through
> mail" approach debian has. When I'm getting help on packaging, I like
> the fact that IRC and REVU are in sync: if somebody says he/she posted
> a comment via IRC, it's there. I think this speed of comments is an
> important feature or REVU for eager new package developers.

This is one of the points that's up for discussion for future mentors 
development.

On a related note, on OFTC in #debian-python they have a bot that echos commit 
logs from their SVN to the IRC channel so you can follow along in real time 
what's being uploaded.  Something like that for REVU and #ubuntu-motu would 
be nice.

> I hope that the next iteration of REVU will be moving from REVU to
> Launchpad and handle the debian/ parts of packages through bazaar, but
> that might be way to advanced for now.

I hope it doesn't myself.  Embedding ourselves further into Ubuntu/LP unique 
tools only separates us more from Debian and makes collaboration harder.

Today if I have a new package the difference is generally release/version and 
dput mentors versus dput revu.  All the other packaging tools are common.  
This is a good thing IMO.

Scott K