[csw-devel] Upstream Watch progress report

[William Bonnet]

Hi all

As some of you already noticed today, the "upstream watch" task is now 
running.

Upstream watch, aka uwatch, is a task running every night, that check 
for each of the package present in GAR if a newer version of sources is 
available from the MASTER_SITE (GAR variable defining the site from 
which you download the sources).

If a newer version is detected, the maintainer is warned. The 
notification email will be sent once a month. Soon a mantis entry will 
also be inserted. Declaring an "need for update bug".

Since this script is still pretty new, it may have bugs. So feedback are 
welcomed :)

I will add soon more features, like :

. Sending email to maintainer with incomplete or invalid "upstream check 
information" in the makefile. So far i receive the email and will try to 
fix a few things in the coming days. This happens when either the 
MASTER_SITE or the regular expression used by uwatch are invalid
. Sending an email asking the maintainer to configure uwatch information 
in the makefile (need to write some howtos before)
. Sending an email asking the maintainer if they want to add there 
packages to gar if they are missing from svn
. Sending an email to our beloved release master, notifying him that 
some package are in svn and GAR and have never been released :)

Trygve, if you have time in the next weeks, we can look to a possibility 
of make this working together with Hudson.

Cheers,

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