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On Fri, 10 Apr 2020 18:21:00 +0200 |
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Jonas Stein <jstein@g.o> wrote: |
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> > I would like to leave a suggestion for Gentoo portage ebuild review. |
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> > Since there are some ebuilds in portage that become outdated for more |
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> > than one year when there are new versions available, maybe could be |
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> > possible to add a new step in Gentoo QA service to generate an alarm |
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> > (send email to project and CI leaders) to request a human review. |
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> This service does already exist. Everybody can use repology [1], euscan |
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> [2] and others. |
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> Bumping a package needs time - especially for testing. I work a lot on |
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> our bug tracker and my impression is that automatic bugs for a bump |
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> request are contra productive. We already have many important, but easy |
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> to fix open bugs. |
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> Automatic tickets for packages will flood bugzilla with tickets for |
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> unused packages and bind additional manpower. |
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Totally agree. I have already used euscan, and nowadays repology, and |
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they're very useful for keeping on top of the stuff I directly |
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maintain. I can also use them for the wider games team but there's a |
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mountain of work to do there and that's not even counting the constant |
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flood of largely automated bug reports we already get every day. I just |
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do what I can. |
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James Le Cuirot (chewi) |
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