Let's close the remaining merge reviews

[Parag N(पराग़)]

Hi,

On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 5:38 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 08:13:24AM +0530, Parag N(पराग़) wrote:
>> If those packages are still not following current packaging guidelines
>> then they should not be closed otherwise what is the use of FPC and
>> their work, meetings, updating wiki pages all these efforts will be of
>> no use then for existing packages in Fedora. FPC work will remain only
>> for newer package submissions.
>
> The presence of these bugs tells you nothing about the quality of
> those packages.  Also it doesn't tell you about other packages that
> might have passed the review 5+ years ago, but since then fallen out
> of compliance with the guidelines.
>

This looks like a general opinion on package reviews and not about
merge-reviews.
Why can't we consider them like as a new reviews? and why people so
against merge-review just because we got those packages already in
Fedora?

> This is where having some sort of automated testing of all packages
> would be good (perhaps running fedora-review over packages, as was
> suggested in this thread already).

That will be a welcome move but again will maintainers read those
reviews and work on to fix any reported issues?


> FWIW, Debian does this already: http://lintian.debian.org/

Those who want to see all the automated work, keep looking into
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Env_and_Stacks/Changes_Drafts/Automated_packages_review_tools

Regards,
Parag.