Hi Christopher, tl;dr: +1 :)
On +2021-02-06 20:20:04 +0000, Christopher Baines wrote: > Hey, > > The Guix Data Service has been getting better at finding problems, but > getting that data requires knowing it exists, and where to find it, and > clicking all the relevant links. > > I've been wondering if it would be good to have a QA page that just > summarises and links to this information, things like: > > - Broken packages > - Broken system tests > - Broken fixed output package derivations > - Lint warnings > - ... > > While I'd really like to get to a place where less packages and system > tests are unintentionally broken, and less lint warnings are > unintentionally introduced, at the moment, there are plenty of these > problems. There's also things like the broken package sources, where > there will probably always be new breakages being introduced. > > Given the Guix Data Service can look at what's changed within a time > period on a branch, recent breakages could also be displayed. > > This could potentially sit at qa.guix.gnu.org. > > Any thoughts? > Mainly, please represent the info so that a person can get it with wget and extract items with grep or simple tool and inspect with any editor. I.e., some form of structured text. Someone will make a shiny browser interface, but don't please don't make that a dependency for access to the data. And please use '+%F %T ' date format for time stamps, UTC, so one doesn't have to wonder what year it was when looking at an old copy/paste or screen capture ;-) That'd be enough to please me, anyway :) Good tags for searching are helpful, of course. > Thanks, > > Chris -- Regards, Bengt Richter
