[D-m-team] Creating changesets

[Joey Hess]

Anthony Towns wrote:
> Attached is a rough pass at a script to autogenerate changesets. You
> invoke it as:
> 
>    make-changeset camrdale at gmail.com
> 
> then edit the generated file as appropriate. The argument needs to
> identify the applicant's key in your keyring, so can be a name, email
> or keyid. If it's not found in your keyring, it'll try invoking gpg
> --recv-key to get the key.
> 
> The recommended-by is filled out with your name and email address, date
> is filled out with date -R, NM-page is filled out if the page seems to
> be valid. The key is exported using the "export-minimal" option which
> doesn't include signatures.
> 
> I couldn't think of a good way to automatically fill in urls for the
> agrees-to-dfsg-etc and advocates fields. It'd be nice to be able to
> just say:
> 
>    make-changeset camrdale at gmail.com 447323
> 
> and have it pull and authenticate all the information from the given
> bug report or something.
> 
> Thoughts?

Won't stripping the signatures mean keycheck finds none? Unless you
incorporate keycheck into this somehow.

Stripping signatures definitely makes sense for admins, but I think
makes less sense for DMs. Most DMs probably don't have tons of
signatures. The ones who do, well, that's a good hint that they are
way too involved in Debian not already be a DD or DM.

It should fill in Changed-By. Recommended-By is being used when someone
creates a changeset on behalf of an applicant whom they recommend. (It
might be simpler to just not bother with that field, since it's
redundant with the Advocates field anyway.)

-- 
see shy jo
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