[gentoo-dev] Re: Proposal for how to handle stable ebuilds

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Tobias Scherbaum <dertobi123@gentoo.org> posted
1226945319.3939.30.camel@homer.ob.libexec.de, excerpted below, on  Mon, 17
Nov 2008 19:08:39 +0100:

> Process might be as easy
> as CC'ing a arch-tinderbox on a bug, a script does parse the bug number
> out of the mail being sent out and using gatt it catches the ebuild to
> test, compiles it and reports back a) failure/success, b) error log as
> attachment if it fails plus c) if there was a test-phase.

Surely, you're talking something other than the publicly writable CC 
field, something writable by devs (and maybe ATs) only, right?  Otherwise 
it's a security nightmare.

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