On Fri, 10 Apr 2020 18:21:00 +0200 Jonas Stein <jst...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > I would like to leave a suggestion for Gentoo portage ebuild review. > > Since there are some ebuilds in portage that become outdated for more > > than one year when there are new versions available, maybe could be > > possible to add a new step in Gentoo QA service to generate an alarm > > (send email to project and CI leaders) to request a human review. > > This service does already exist. Everybody can use repology [1], euscan > [2] and others. > > Bumping a package needs time - especially for testing. I work a lot on > our bug tracker and my impression is that automatic bugs for a bump > request are contra productive. We already have many important, but easy > to fix open bugs. > Automatic tickets for packages will flood bugzilla with tickets for > unused packages and bind additional manpower. Totally agree. I have already used euscan, and nowadays repology, and they're very useful for keeping on top of the stuff I directly maintain. I can also use them for the wider games team but there's a mountain of work to do there and that's not even counting the constant flood of largely automated bug reports we already get every day. I just do what I can. -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer
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