[maemo-developers] extras: promotion interface

[From: Levi Bard]

> After quite some time of fighting with myself as well as getting
> encouragement from certain members of this community, I'm humbly offer
> to your attention a first {alpha,beta} release of a manual promotion
> interface.

Great!  What's there so far seems to work well.

Comments:
* Is it necessary to separate each package into source/armel/i386/etc?
 Why not just display the package name (e.g. xmaeme), perhaps with a
link to click to view the contained files, and/or an asterisk if
there's no source?  Is there any situation in which, say, the source
component would be promoted, but the armel component wouldn't?

Things that might be nice for the future:
* Ability to add comments (e.g. "This package bends rule F, but
promoting for now...")
* Ability to demote and/or rollback to a previous version (with comments)
* Display the amount of time each package has been in the promotion queue
* Notify package maintainer via email on (pro|de)motion
* A way to view a package's dependencies
  - A way to verify whether all of a package's dependencies are either
in extras or in the promotion queue
  - A way to simultaneously promote a package and all of its dependencies

That's all I can think of for now.  Great work!

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