On Mon, 10 Jul 2017 20:20:12 +0200 Alexander Berntsen <berna...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 10/07/17 20:11, Jonas Stein wrote: > > It would be so motivating to see that many user are glad about a > > special package. One gets rarely feedback. > > Interesting idea. We could have some (separate) portage-y helper tool > send a standardised email that could easily be filtered based on > sender and/or topic. 'emerge foo --thank' just thanks people, 'emerge > foo --thank="msg"' thanks people with a msg. > > It's gimmicky and could be abused. But then again perhaps it wouldn't > be abused, and it would just be wholesome fun. Maybe someone would > meet their future lover via the thank-parametre. > > What do you think? We had a past GSOC project that ended up with a decent start to a stats system. I know I had hoped for (and suggested) a survey system for it. A maintainer could put up a stabilization survey, or some other query about a pkg/version. The people interested could fill it out, the maintainer could get feedback. It would also give estimates of the number of people using the pkg/version (dpends on the number of people with stats enabled). There was even a dev that recently tried to get it deployed (again). I volunteered to help. But it never got the vm from it from infra. Infra is not set up to allow root access to a system for only certain systems/devs. So in order to maintain a system, you primarily have to be in the infra team. So, as a result, progress stalls, dies out. -- Brian Dolbec <dolsen>
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