Automating hosted projects?

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Tue Jan 27 13:37:05 UTC 2009


seth vidal wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 14:56 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> seth vidal wrote:
>>
>>> imo -1. Part of the benefit of the process being manual is that a little
>>> sanity checking is applied.
>> Can that be automated?
> 
> Can't we automate manual checking? Do you understand that the word
> 'manual' is opposite to the word 'automate'?
> If you automate it then it is no longer manual.
> If it is manual, then it is not automatic.

Oh, come on. No need to play super smart. Isn't it obvious? I meant, can 
the sanity checking be automated?

> If by 'it' you mean "have a giant pile of unmaintained pkgs that no one
> is updating or caring for and are just wasting space", then yes,
> repo.or.cz does that very well.

Lots of people are taking advantage of it precisely because it is 
trivial to sign up. Yes, that means some of the projects will be 
abandoned but look at the number of projects in fedorahosted.org which 
haven't even bothered to edit the front page and provide a simple 
description of what it is all about. I don't think we are doing anything 
that is obviously better.

Rahul




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