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Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2013

Filed:

Nov. 26, 2008
Applicant:

John Palmieri, Cambridge, MA (US);

Inventor:

John Palmieri, Cambridge, MA (US);

Assignee:

Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/44 (2006.01); G06Q 99/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A workflow module automates and monitors a package review process. A package review module receives a package created by a contributor to be reviewed for compliance with a set of guidelines. The workflow module initiates, monitors, and manages a plurality of package review tasks to be performed on the package. A user interface module provides user interface for creating a package and a user interface for reviewing a package. The workflow module automates review tasks, interfaces with external servers performing review tasks, gathers review task results, determines whether to send a notification regarding the status of a review task, sends notifications regarding the status of a review task and stores successfully review packages in a repository.


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