[gentoo-dev] arch teams and better tools

Recently there was a discussion about better tools for arch teams, to
speed up stabilizations and make them less error-prone.

Here's my answer to that, still in very early development:
<http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/arch-tools.git;a=summary>

You can just launch it like this:

./bugzilla-viewer.py --arch x86

It has more options, and can even try to do the stabilization in cvs
tree and capture repoman output (it has to be enabled from the
command-line, see --help).

I think the key thing for arch teams is batching. Compilation takes
time, viewing web pages has latency, so we should maximize the work that
a developer can do within his limited time. To do that, we should
prepare as much information as possible up-front (this is the goal of
bugzilla-viewer.py).

Then the developer can quickly process the list of bugs, and decide what
he's going to test. And then we can have tools for batch-testing,
batch-committing, and so on. Some of them already exist.

Patches welcome, and please let me know what you think!