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On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 12:32:44PM -0700, Alec Warner wrote: |
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> What if my herd email address is different from my bugzie address? |
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> Can I have both in herds.xml? What if my herd address *isn't* a |
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> bugzie account, will the world end? |
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I don't know any herd where the herd email is not the same as the bugzie |
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email. Why would this case arise anyway? The mail aliases reside on dev, |
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and the duplication doesn't make sense. |
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> How can we automatically detect when developers make mistakes in |
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> editing herds.xml? |
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There is a validation CGI in Bugzie, I created it for when somebody (I |
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forgot who) was checking all of the metadata and herd emails previously, |
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which we should probably automated. |
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> > 1. For handling <herd>no-herd</herd>, we should add an entry into herds.xml to |
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> > catch it (maintainer-needed <at> g.o). Every herd listed in an ebuild MUST be in |
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> > herds.xml. |
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> You and I both know this is not going to be true. Complicated |
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> solution; make Repoman do it. Certainly it is the 'correct' thing to |
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> do; however I don't expect it to get implemented or deployed quickly. |
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> Hacky solution: run script on osprey that tries to validate tree |
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> metadata against herds.xml and annoy herds who forgot to add |
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> themselves. |
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Yes, automation is useful here. |
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Robin Hugh Johnson |
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Gentoo Linux Developer & Infra Guy |
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E-Mail : robbat2@g.o |
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