Rich Freeman wrote: > > A per-ebuild bug metric would be cool. A kind of health indicator > > for individual ebuilds, alerting users when some of our installed > > ebuilds go yellow, so that we have perhaps on the order of six > > months before the package goes red, at which point it would be fine > > to mask at will. Does that make sense? > > And how would users actually be alerted?
The when I think is after emerge --sync. The how may not be as easy. :) Maybe the bug metric can be added into portage easily enough, allowing it to be transfered as part of sync. I think that would be ideal. > Seems like a potentially interesting GCOC project, but somebody > does need to actually implement this for it to be useful... Sure, but an idea of what to accomplish is a good start. //Peter
