Proposal: bugzilla component for pre-review package development

[Richard Jones]

On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 06:23:42PM -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> Occasionally we see a package review ticket opened for a package which
> really isn't ready for review.  I'm not sure bugzilla is really best
> the place for coordinating packaging work, but some seem to want to
> use it for that and I don't really see it as being invalid.  Some
> folks just want to drop a specfile but don't really want to stick
> around to maintain the package.

I sometimes do this (eg. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=434560)
really for packages which I would like to see or don't have the time
yet to package.

Debian has a concept of 'Intent To Package' and 'Request To Package'.
ITP in particular seems like a similar thing, and they are treated
like ordinary Debian bugs.

Rich.