Re: [Cooker] purpose of /incoming, unmaintained packages

[Couriousous]

Le Lundi 09 Janvier 2006 13:07, Guillaume Rousse a écrit :
> Götz Waschk wrote:
> > 2006/1/9, Moreno <moreno.mg@gmail.com>:
> >>>there's no need to upload this package to incoming. I already maintain
> >>>it and I can update to a new version by myself. But if you have any
> >>>suggestions or patches, you can mail them to me.
> >>
> >>I do not understand exactly how work ftp.mandriva.com/incoming.
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I think the main purpose is for new packages, that is packages that
> > aren't yet in contribs or main to be uploaded and that somebody who is
> > already a package maintainer can take it, review and upload it.
>
> Actually, it is a reminiscence of old time, when there was no access to
> the build cluster for contributeurs. It remained there unchanged...
>
> >  > I have found a lot of package very old without update (your is one of
> >>
> >>the most recently updated).
>
> We (contributers) don't have write access to this directory, and are
> unable to remove old content, as we only access a mirrored copy.
>

A quick workaround to filter the incoming directory is aviable on 
~couriousous/incoming.pl :
~couriousous/incoming.pl --deadline 0 --shownew --showupdate

It take some time to run, maybe we should make it running every week or so and 
deleting junk packages ?

Regards,
Couriousous