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On Sat, 10 May 2014 21:12:54 +0200 |
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Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> wrote: |
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> At least from my point of view (as member or treecleaners), I would |
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> welcome the tinderbox as would help to detect more broken packages, |
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> some of them really old and that are not going to be fixed but, as |
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> nobody uses them, they are broken for a long time without noticing. |
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From the previous Tinderbox run there are a considerable amount of bugs |
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left behind that could be used; we can start there first, or instead |
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take bugs compared to commits in general and draw up a list from that. |
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Taking the top example from such list, recent bugs of sys-power/pm-utils |
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are longer being fixed for newly filed bugs after 2011; as evidenced |
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from the following URL if you scroll down to the unresolved ones. |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=ALL%20sys-power%2Fpm-utils |
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There are some more packages in the generated list below; as further as |
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you go, they become less and less candidate, but at the very least they |
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suggest which packages are still less maintained than we would like. |
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As to how to tell whether a package is broken and not fixable; bug |
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counts won't tell you, but manual investigation of its bugs does. |
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That's the case as long as we don't care about Priority / Severity; |
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talking about priorities, I think the list below is more important than |
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to remove unused packages which effort would have a low RoI value. |
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Tinderbox is something we should have sooner than later; but I don't |
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see why it needs to be a hype, added today or drop important work. |
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Not to forget about the amount of bug reports that get lost on IRC, the |
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Gentoo Forums or doesn't even reach us; eg. http://gentwoo.elisp.net/ |
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Fetch statistics: |
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Open bugs: 19971 |
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Processing statistics: |
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Open bugs without an ATOM (= no slash): 4205 |
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Open bugs with an ATOM (= slash, matches paths too): 15766 |
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Filter statistics: |
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Open bugs for a package outside the Portage tree |
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(or mismatch, new ebuild or path): 4182 |
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Open bugs which have a package in the Portage tree: 11584 |
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Packages with most open bugs for the least amount of last year commits: |
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5.000000 sys-power/pm-utils (Bugs: 15; Commits: 3) |
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4.000000 net-analyzer/nagios-plugins (Bugs: 12; Commits: 3; Proxied) |
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3.000000 sys-process/audit (Bugs: 9; Commits: 3) |
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3.000000 media-tv/linuxtv-dvb-firmware (Bugs: 12; Commits: 4; Herd) |
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2.875000 app-portage/g-cpan (Bugs: 23; Commits: 8) |
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2.833333 net-p2p/rtorrent (Bugs: 17; Commits: 6; Herd) |
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2.666666 net-analyzer/nagios (Bugs: 8; Commits: 3; Proxied) |
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2.333333 net-wireless/wimax (Bugs: 7; Commits: 3; Unmaintained) |
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2.333333 dev-perl/PortageXS (Bugs: 7; Commits: 3; Proxied) |
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2.333333 dev-lang/rubinius (Bugs: 7; Commits: 3; Herd) |
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2.333333 dev-db/firebird (Bugs: 14; Commits: 6; Proxied) |
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2.333333 app-admin/sysklogd (Bugs: 7; Commits: 3; Herd) |
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2.000000 sci-mathematics/flint (Bugs: 6; Commits: 3) |
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... ... |
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With kind regards, |
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Tom Wijsman (TomWij) |
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Gentoo Developer |
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