From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.3 required=5.0 tests=DATE_IN_FUTURE_03_06, DMARC_NONE,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from obelix.spectraweb.ch (obelix.plusnet.ch [194.158.230.8]) by chiba.3jane.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62D3FABD95 for ; Sun, 9 Jun 2002 10:55:58 -0500 (CDT) Received: from seul.org (adsl-p42-dialup-89.adslplus.ch [195.141.144.89]) by obelix.spectraweb.ch (8.11.2/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id g59Ftp010681 for ; Sun, 9 Jun 2002 17:55:52 +0200 Message-ID: <3D03CE3D.2080603@seul.org> Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2002 17:53:01 -0400 From: Marko Mikulicic User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020204 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Contribute many ebuilds at once References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux developer list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: X-Archives-Salt: 09208dea-a57e-4319-83d4-97574de52122 X-Archives-Hash: a5b78e2ffe9722f7dac4cb9759db9b47 Karl Trygve Kalleberg wrote: > > > The biggest problem for the maintainers is the varying quality of ebuilds. > Few, if any submissions are correct on the first go, and many of the > bugs/problems identified could be checked programmatically. > > Submissions should then be run through a "screening" script that checks > for syntactic and semantic completeness, verifies dependencies, > well-formedness of ebuild, digest, changelog, etc. > > If any of these tests fail, the submitter is notified, and no developers' > time is wasted needlessly until the ebuild script follows all the basic > guidelines and its sources actually compile. > insightful. Do you have a prototype of this new system or the "screening" script ? Should the package submitter decide in which cathegory its' package should go, and how should the RCS string (in ChangeLog + *.ebuild's third line) be formatted ? Marko