Re: Yet again: several missing update announcements
On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 08:57 -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
Sure :-) My mail wasn't really a complaint, I just tried to
explain
to the majority of the people outside of Red Hat and who don't deal with
our internal system what is happening, and why. The fact that step 4
is asynchronous to me is nearly unavoidable since it requires PGP signing
of the packages and "some" centralized manual checking is needed.
Is there no way that the announcement (stage 4) be written ahead of time
- ie with the push into stage 3 - with replaceable blocks for the
information that will change (MD5s and the like). An automatic process
would then fill in the blanks.
Nigel.