Email aliases and new cvs requests

[Xavier Lamien]

2008/7/27 Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com>

> Xavier Lamien wrote:
>
>     Here's my idea for stages:
>>
>>    1) Request for new package with new branch is added to the packagedb.
>>
>>  + email is sent to the related mailling list to notify that.
>>
>>  <nod>  Right now only cvsadmins can branch packages so we can send them
> mail so they can process the queue.
>

it's what i'm talking about, send mail to cvsadmin, i thought they had a
mailling list for that.


>
>
>>    2) Request is marked approved by an admin
>>    3) Packagedb create the record for the package
>>    4) Packagedb waits for the email alias to be created (currently, the
>>    packagedb doesn't know for sure that the alias has been created...
>>    we'll just wait an appropriate length of time.  If this proves
>>    problematic we can create a URL that records that aliases has been
>>    created that is only authorized to certain users.)
>>    5) Packagedb records that the package is ready to be branched.
>>    6) cvs-int has a cron job that queries for packages to branch,
>>    branches them, and then records that they have been created.
>>
>>
>> Sound a nice plan/procedure.
>> By the way, Why don't make Packagedb able to run cvs-int with related
>> arguments ?
>> (this will avoid to have cvs-int check when there are no packages to
>> branch)
>>
>>  Security.  It's easier for us to audit cron jobs that are on the local
> machine than it is for us to check what commands are being sent from the
> packagedb over the network to cvs-int.





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