[Pkg-octave-devel] Proposal: RFU

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Cyril Brulebois <cyril.brulebois at enst-bretagne.fr> [2007-07-19 16:40]:

> > Therefore, I propose to change the DOG Guidelines according to the
> > patch attached below (note that I removed all references to Emacs in
> > this patch).  Comments are welcome.
> 
> Mine are: excellent. :)

Okay, I went ahead and committed the changes.  I think that nobody would
really disagree with the changes.

I also committed a paragraph about the new RFU rules (diffs attached below).
Please, check the DOG-Guidelines document now in SVN.  After that, I will
update the DOG web site.
 
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Rafael
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Index: DOG-Guidelines.txt
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--- DOG-Guidelines.txt	(revision 981)
+++ DOG-Guidelines.txt	(working copy)
@@ -55,6 +55,12 @@
     XS-Vcs-Svn: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-octave/<source-package>/
     XS-Vcs-Browser: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-octave/<source-package>/
 
+Once a developer thinks that a given package in the SVN repository is ready
+for upload, a message should be dropped in the pkg-octave-devel mailing
+list containing a request for upload (RFU) and using the format "[RFU]
+<package> <version>" in the Subject line.  If there are no objections
+during the following two work days, at least, the upload can be done by one
+of the official Debian developers of the DOG.
 
 3. SVN repository
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