[csw-maintainers] Submitting a package to the release manager

[Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski]

On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org> wrote:
> Excerpts from Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski's message of Thu Oct 08 11:08:23 -0400 2009:
>
>> I thought the same way, but there was a thread on this list (I
>> couldn't find it in the archives) in which somebody said that the
>> package file should be removed from testing when it's being send to
>> the release manager. Intuitively, I would think that it's best if the
>> files stays in testing/ until it's released, to avoid a gap in the
>> file availability.
>
> The tool that pushes files to the mirrors and registers it in the DB
> should also reach in an rm the file iff the filename and md5sum match.
> That gets the best of both worlds.  The release script is then simply
> a wrapper around an email (or other trigger) to the release system.

Yes, primarily it would be a wrapper around e-mail. I also thought
about making it move files around a little. For instance, copy files
from testing/ to newpkgs/ and store state, or log the activity for
future reference. (When did I send this? What were the checksums?
etc.)

Maciej