Handling orphaned packages in a better way
There is a discussion currently on the debian-qa mailing list about a proposal to enhance the way orphaned packages are handled by the QA team.
The main target of this proposal is to simplify the work of integrating submitted patches on orphaned packages. Using SVN for this seems to be a good idea, it would allow anyone who want to test an updated version of an orphaned package to use svn-buildpackage and would minimize the work of the QA team.
The main “chocking” idea behind this proposal is to give write access to that SVN repository to external developers who care about the orphaned packages. This is in a way, a structure for providing smooth collaborative work between the QA Team and external developers.
I started writing a draft for summurazing this proposal, you can check it here.
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