The wiki’s submit a package feature has been linked to our issue tracker.  It will now automatically check for a duplicate name, and will submit any valid packages into the issue tracker as a new task.  It’s still in testing, but we hope it will make the packaging workflow much easier.

Also, a new “unitypackage” (rss) Twitter account has been set up. It is used so that our packagers can easily report what they are working on, and they can quickly check before they begin a new package to make sure nobody else is working on it. For cases where a packager is working on many small packages, this is easier than needing to work with the issue tracker.

These systems are a work in progress though. We’re thinking of ways to have the automatically-opened issue tracker tickets also be automatically-closed once the finished package is submitted.  The automatically-created wiki pages is also a leftover that would need to be cleaned up.  It’ll all be worked out in time.

These feature will not only help our packagers, but they are meant to make package submission, discussion and bug reporting, and status tracking easier for the end-user.