[gentoo-dev] RFC: packages.gentoo.org Developer Mode

[Max Magorsch]

Hi,

Some time ago, the idea of integrating packages.g.o with pkgcheck and
repology.org came up. There have already been some discussions in bug
725702 and 725704 regarding this.

The tl;dr is that the packages.g.o backend does now parse both the
pkgcheck results as well as the repology.org data. Currently, it's
possible to access them:
 - either by using the new GraphQL API [0]
 - or by using the 'developer mode' in the web interface
You can enable the developer mode by clicking onto 'Switch to
Developer Mode' in the footer [1]. Afterwards, you will see pkgcheck
warnings in the version table as well as warnings in case a new
version of a package is available according to repology.org (as, e.g.
currently for x11-wm/xmonad-contrib).

I think, more generally speaking, there is some information that is of
interest for developers but might not be of interest for regular
users. This leads to some questions:

1. Would you prefer this information to be displayed in packages.g.o
using a 'developer mode' or would you prefer a separate application
similar to the idea of project Grumpy?

2. Is there any further information apart from pkgcheck and repology
that you would consider useful here for the development workflow?

3. What else would you like to see here? For instance, I could think
of a configurable dashboard that shows all pkgcheck warnings, new
versions and open pull requests for packages that a developer
maintains. Would that be useful? What else could you think of?

I look forward to your opinion.

-M

[0] you can use https://packages.gentoo.org/api/explore/ to get started
[1] if that's not working, that's likely a caching issue, and the
javascript assets have to be refreshed