OF: proposal for reviewing packages

[Colin Macdonald]

I've been somewhat following the various threads.  Here is a small 
suggestion to help with workload of the "team of admins" being discussed:

Currently we package maintainers upload a tarball (and a doc tarball). 
We then wait for "team of admins" (nee Carnë) to process.

Instead, we could first require that *another* package maintainer needs 
to "sign-off".  This person would ensure the package installs, tests 
pass on their machine, code is up-to-date on sourceforge, maintainers 
Makefile functions correctly, or whatever else seems appropriate (e.g., 
a checklist on the wiki).

For example:

  1. I submit a ticket for a new Symbolic release.
  2. Oliver (say) reviews that ticket and gives it a "+1".
  3. "team of admins" can release it.

Oliver is motivated to do this review because when he wants to release 
Interval, others (esp. me) will be motivated to review it.  Thus an 
additional benefit is that we newcomer OF maintainers become more 
familiar/involved with each others' packages, thus improving the OF 
community.

best,
Colin