Re: get-cygwin-package - for anyone with upload privileges

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 08:12:16PM -0600, Warren Young wrote:
>On 10/17/2012 4:46 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> I've hacked at the get-cygwin-package script
>
>I take it this script is run by hand when a human has decided to do 
>something about an RFU message?
>
>If so, is there a plan or even a wish for getting to a point where a 
>script can run on sourceware.org (?) and just monitor the list for RFU 
>messages and handle them all automatically?

I've been thinking about this problem for many years.  I have lots of
ideas on how to make this automatic.  I have even partially implemented
a more robust version of this which relied on package maintainers
logging in via ssh into a chroot jail where packages are uploaded to a
staging area which ran upset on packages before copying them to the
final release area.  I wasn't really satisified with it though, partly
because I thought it would be a maintenance headache and partly because
I was paranoid about security.

Someday, possibly, I'll complete something like that and make the whole
RFU thing obsolete.

In the meantime, this is only intended as a useful utility for people
who handle "RFU"s.

cgf