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Hi Samuel, |
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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 Since there are some ebuilds in portage that become outdated for more |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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We should reserve automatic tickets for important milestones. Such as |
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EAPI 0 removal or the removal of an obsolete eclass. |
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Version bumps will get easier and faster as automatic tests are improving. |
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There is a big effort in the area of Python packages already. But there |
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is still a lot to do for the next years. |
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What consumes a lot manpower for version bumps? |
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- Dependencies change upstream without documentation |
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- Tests are missing |
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- Tests are provided, but broken |
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- Build systems are not used as intended and we have to fix downstream |
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- The current workflow is still error prone and needs stronger |
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integration of tools for standard tasks. (Package tests, last riting, |
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removal, simple version bump, reassigning packages) |
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repoman ci can not help with edits in profiles for example, it lacks of |
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many QA tests. So you need finally additional test tools such as |
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dev-util/pkgcheck. |
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[1] https://repology.org/ |
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[2] http://euscan.gentooexperimental.org |
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Best, |
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Jonas |
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