Re: Summary of meeting 20031119-1

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Frantz Dhin wrote:

| I like the voting system and level attributes. I do see the need
| for a slight modification though, and it lies in the procedures
| used for acknowledging a package. These procedures are not set in
| stone yet, but let's say that they were something like "A package
| must be acknowledged by package maintainer and a trusted user
| before making it into an official zynot distribution". If it turns
| out to be a rigid demand in this fashion it would not matter how
| many "community points" or stats bonuses a package got. The system
| should still effectively block a package from getting into the
| distribution before the procedure demands were satisfied.

Policy, not mechanism... Although this rigidity is usually advised
against. Alternatively, this could be done on the distribution end, by
not distributing XBuilds that don't qualify.

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| A thought I got when reading this is that ideally we should
| integrate this voting system with our yet-to-come automatic
| regression test suites. This means a package that passes all tests
| and a distro that passes all regression tests after the package has
| been inserted would add points to the package. Essentially this
| means to add regression testing as a player on the same level as a
| core developer.
|
Interesting idea. Perhaps the regression suite can get its own key...
However, it is up to the user how much bonus to give to each signed
vote. We could give them a default policy, but they should be able to
define their own policy.

Also, I am concerned about the size of the votes file. A cryptographic
signature is about 100 bytes in size, and that's excluding the headers
GPG likes to add. It might not be feasible to distribute the votes
file uncompressed.
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