Re: tag2upload - request for DPL action

Sean Whitton writes ("Re: tag2upload - request for DPL action"):
> We should have been invited to perform testing by the FTP Team.  Indeed,
> I just tried a test upload of dgit-test-dummy, and it was REJECT'd with
> a strange error message.
> 
> Should we file a bug against ftp.debian.org?  Just write an e-mail?
> We have no open channel of communication, despite our best efforts.

For reference, here is the error email.  It looks like some part of
the complicated new code failed, but the stderr output doesn't appeaar
in the message, so it's impossible to say what the cause is.

I can't rule out that this is a bug in our part of the system.  But
without cooperative communication on a technical level, it will not be
possible to resolve this, or the next snag.


The situation is as I predicted on Friday:

  But the FTP Team won't communicate with us on a technical level, and
  only reply to emails if vigorously poked here - often not even then.
  It doesn't seem like they really want to see tag2upload deployed,
  despite notionally saying they support it.  We don't expect that snags
  and bugs will be resolved in a reasonable timescale, or at all.

  For these two reasons, we conclude it is necessary to give someone
  else the authority to install the key, so tag2upload can go live.


Ian.