[Mageia-sysadm] [Mageia-dev] Feature:RpmDrakeShowsAdvisories

[AL13N]

Op dinsdag 12 juni 2012 00:14:55 schreef nicolas vigier:
> On Mon, 11 Jun 2012, AL13N wrote:
> > Op maandag 11 juni 2012 23:52:42 schreef nicolas vigier:
> > > On Sun, 10 Jun 2012, AL13N wrote:
> > > > see https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Feature:RpmDrakeShowsAdvisories
> > > > 
> > > > in essence, it's filling out the descriptions file.
> > > > Can Sysadmins do this while they are moving the updates? Just until
> > > > the
> > > > tool has been written for QA to do this themselves.
> > > 
> > > Yes, we need someone to fill out the descriptions file until the tools
> > > to generate it are ready. Thanks for volunteering !
> > > 
> > > We can sync the descriptions file on the mirror from svn automatically.
> > 
> > any idea where the location of the svn file is?
> 
> It's not on svn yet, but can be added if you want to be responsible for
> filling that descriptions file.
> 
> > > And you are responsible for browsing validated updates on bugzilla every
> > > day to manually fill out the descriptions file for each new package. Ok
> > > ?
> > 
> > hmm, sounds like alot of work.
> 
> That's why it's not done now. And is waiting until we have tools to
> generate that file automatically with the advisory email.

while this sounds nice (is the advisory email also manually?), it might take a 
while to get this done.

I was thinking if we have QA do this at the moment they validate the email and 
have them commit directly to a svn location. is this possible as a quick 
solution?

perhaps you could add some details and howtos and pointers on that Feature? 
since this is about the tool for it?