Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Peter Stuge <peter@×××××.se>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-text/cuneiform
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 14:35:28
Message-Id: 20130324143522.19573.qmail@stuge.se
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-text/cuneiform by Rich Freeman
1 Rich Freeman wrote:
2 > > A per-ebuild bug metric would be cool. A kind of health indicator
3 > > for individual ebuilds, alerting users when some of our installed
4 > > ebuilds go yellow, so that we have perhaps on the order of six
5 > > months before the package goes red, at which point it would be fine
6 > > to mask at will. Does that make sense?
7 >
8 > And how would users actually be alerted?
9
10 The when I think is after emerge --sync.
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12 The how may not be as easy. :)
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14 Maybe the bug metric can be added into portage easily enough,
15 allowing it to be transfered as part of sync. I think that would be
16 ideal.
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19 > Seems like a potentially interesting GCOC project, but somebody
20 > does need to actually implement this for it to be useful...
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22 Sure, but an idea of what to accomplish is a good start.
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25 //Peter