openSUSE packagers' take on the 3 month release cycle

Vishesh Handa me at vhanda.in
Tue Jul 9 13:34:46 BST 2013


On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Scott Kitterman <kde at kitterman.com> wrote:
> There I'd a licensecheck script that does this. It helps, but the results have to be checked and properly documented and so thete is still substantial manual work required. KDE packages are generally better about consistently documenting copyright and licensing, but we still find bugs and it's still a lot of work.

Can we as KDE developers do something to reduce this work load? We
could create git hooks which reject patches with incompatible
licesnses? Or something like that?

Once the script has extracted the infromation, do you really need to
check it? Proper documentation can be automatically generated. (Unless
I'm missing something)

My overall point is that this problem seems more of a technical one
than one related to release schedules. It should be fixed as it would
considerably reduce the work distributions have to do.

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Vishesh Handa




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