It would be great to improve a bit our packaging workflow for our reprepro service.
One simple improvement would be to automate the incoming package processing: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reprepro#Automatically_import_files_from_an_incoming/_directory

This quick & simple script can give an idea of what I'm thinking of:

set -e
reprepro processincoming default
reprepro export
rm -rf /srv/wikimedia/conf/incoming/*

This can run on systemd timer/cron in the install servers every X minutes.

Of course we can add additional code for logging, accountability, etc:

• check that /srv/wikimedia/conf/incoming exists
• check that only .changes|.deb|.dsc and related files are present in /srv/wikimedia/conf/incoming
• check that all files were processed by reprepro
• email what has been done (reprepro does this already anyway)

If one of these checks fail, we can send an email to root@.

The workflow for packaging would end up being something like:

• build package (sbuild, whatever)
• check it, sign it, etc
• run dupload --to wmf pkg.changes (as described in https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reprepro#dupload)
• just wait and see your package being added to the repo (instead of manually jumping to the install server and doing what the script is doing, but by hand)