Scott Kitterman ubuntu@kitterman.com writes:
Why do REVU and mentors need to be separate?
I've been thinking about this as well. Here my thoughts:
I never actively used mentors. To me, mentors is mainly an apt-get'able repository, where interested contributors can submit packages. It acts mainly as a hosting service for packages. There are quite some differences to REVU, but I think the most important one is that REVU lets you collect opinions on a contribution in the web application. In mentors.debian,net, this happens on the mailing list.
Do we need this disctinction? I don't think so. See e.g. Bundle Buggy (http://bundlebuggy.aaronbentley.com/), which is used on the bazaar development mailing list to collect and review contributions. It has got a new feature which allows Developers to vote on a submission via email commands on the mailing list, to which Bundle Buggy is subscribed.
I think that ideally, we could join all three mediums: Mail, Web-app and IRC. REVU could look for comments and commands for a package on a mailing list. On the other hand, reviews and submissions could be announced on an IRC Channel. We could even think about giving comments/commands via irc. It mainly needs one: Someone to do it.
I'm sorry to say that REVU isn't really under development since some time. I'd be more than happy if some people would approach me and said: “I want to implement some of the ideas floating around REVU2”. I think this would perhaps force me to start again coding on it. ATM, REVU is in maintenance only mode. :(
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