Re: The future of patch-o-matic-ng

[Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>]

Harald Welte wrote:
> As indicated in Patricks mail, there's a 30 day grace period.  Until
> then the original authors (if they care) or other people can take
> maintenance for individual patchlets and send us URL's to those
> repositories.  We will add them to our list file, and distribute a
> 'runme' script which downloads those repositories off the net.
> 
> If you want to help, I suggest to wait for those patchlets that nobody
> takes care of, and run a repository for them.

As a side-note: anyone who decides to take maintanance for some
patchlet, please drop me a short note, so I can keep a list
of unmaintained patches.

> Also, I assume that there is a lot that can be done to improve that
> patchlet-handling script, i.e. add suport for GPG signature checking and
> the like.  I suggest you coordinate with Patrick on this.

Definitely. The code is very basic, it only makes sure a patchlet
1) doesn't overwrite anything outside of its patchlet directory
2) can only overwrite "Repository: external" patchlets

But doensn't do any signature verification. I'll add it today,
patches are welcome.