Re: [gentoo-project] [RFC] Aggregated status whiteboard for projects

[Michał Górny]

On Mon, 2019-06-17 at 15:39 +0300, Joonas Niilola wrote:
> On 6/4/19 2:35 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Right now we lack a consisted aggregated source of project status.  Some
> > projects report their progress via website news, some use various
> > mailing lists, some don't report status at all.  I'd like to propose
> > a new method for publishing an opt-in 'status whiteboard' for projects.
> >
> > The idea is to create a special template on wiki.  The projects
> > interested in publishing their status would use the template to put it
> > on the page.  As a result, besides being published as part of project
> > page it would be aggregated for machine processing.
> >
> > Then, we'd create a simple aggregated listing of all projects publishing
> > their status.
>
> This sounds a bit vague currently, and for me it's quite hard to imagine
> what you exactly mean. Maybe some simple mock-up would help to explain
> it better? Is the "status" indicator simply 'active/inactive'? Do you
> write your own goals and then set it 'in good health / behind intended
> progress'? How does it get defined, automatically or manually? Because
> if it's manually written, projects can be set 'active' now but forgotten
> in weeks. If it's automatic, how does it get defined?
>

I mean having a free-form aggregated list like:

GNOME: 3.30 stable, working on 3.3x in ::gnome

LLVM: current stable 7.1.0, 8.0.1 expected on ... and stable ...

Proxy-maint: long PR backlog, currently not processing new packages

Xfce: Xfce 4.14 RC1 now in ~arch, 4.14 final expected on ...

etc.  Basically anything you'd like to tell others.  Possibly something
PR people can use afterwards to make news or presentations about status
of Gentoo.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny