[D-m-team] Creating changesets

[Anthony Towns]

On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 04:41:35PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Anthony Towns wrote:
> > Thoughts?
> Won't stripping the signatures mean keycheck finds none? Unless you
> incorporate keycheck into this somehow.

Making keycheck grab signatures off the keyserver seems easy enough. And
potentially useful in case a key's been revoked since the changeset was
originally created.

> 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.

Thinking out loud, wouldn't stripping signatures also make for a
smaller DM keyring? That seems like a good thing if we have lots of
DMs eventually; the DD keyring is a bit unweildy, in particular, and in
theory we're hoping to make something that'll work for maintaining it too.

> It should fill in Changed-By. Recommended-By is being used when someone
> creates a changeset on behalf of an applicant whom they recommend. 

Well, maybe it should fill in Created-By: and leave Changed-By: for
the DM maintainer that commits the key. Or maybe we should make that
Committed-By:?  Or maybe we should just use revision history for that
and drop the committer name from the changeset entirely?

Or we could add the committer name automatically when we do keycheck,
I guess.

Cheers,
aj

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