Re: Request for write access on OctaveForge server

[Julien Bect]

Le 31/10/2015 10:46, Lukas Reichlin a écrit :
> On Friday morning, I posted control-3.0.0 on the package release 
> tracker, just a few hours after parallel-3.0.3 (by Olaf Till). 
> Additionally, I sent an e-mail to Carnë, asking him that he should 
> upload it to the OctaveForge server as soon as possible.
>
> On Friday afternoon, Carnë published parallel-3.0.3 on the OctaveForge 
> server and removed its ticket on the package release tracker, but he 
> failed to do so for control-3.0.0 for no apparent reason. He did not 
> respond to my enquiry on Friday evening, and control-3.0.0 is still 
> waiting for being published on OctaveForge until now.
>
> As I have been working very hard on improving the control package 
> during the last few weeks (and as I am on edge), this situation is 
> very frustrating to me (and it is not the first time). Therefore I am 
> asking kindly for write acces on the OctaveForge server so I can 
> publish my future package releases (control and quaternion) on my own.

Hello Lukas,

I can't speak for Carnë of course, but I assume that what you call "no 
apparent reason" is simply lack of time to process both release request 
tickets in a row.

You created the ticket on Friday and we are only Saturday: no yet a very 
long wait time, in my opinion (but of course that's subjective, and you 
probably have some very good reasons to be in a hurry for this specific 
release).

It is my understanding that the "release process" (i.e., what Carnë does 
to turn a release request into an actual release) is only semi-automated.

Perhaps the first step towards reducing the release delay (and reducing 
Carnë's workload) would be to fully document those steps (which probably 
include some basic sanity checks, pushing the tarballs to the release 
file system, pushing the documentation to the web site, etc.).

Then we would have two options : either expanding the "release team" 
(which is actually composed of Carnë only) as you suggest, or automating 
those steps (in which case we could have some sort of "release deamon" 
that does what Carnë actually does, but I have no idea if this is 
realistic).

Just my 2 cents.

@++
Julien