On Thu, 2019-09-12 at 02:32 -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: > On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 2:28 AM Clement Verna <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, 11 Sep 2019 at 15:06, Ankur Sinha <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I was looking for information on the future of the packages > > > application[1]. I didn't see it mentioned in the commblog post[2]. > > > > Currently the application is in a kind of maintenance mode (in reality I > > don't have much time to look at tickets). This application is really > > valuable and used a lot, but the big problem is the technology stack it is > > built on TurboGears2 and making an heavy use of Moksha > > (https://moksha.readthedocs.io/en/latest/), while TG2 is still active > > upstream, this is not the case with Moksha and some of the TG2 dependencies > > the application has. The effort to move away from these 2 framework is > > quite high and I don't think we currently have the cycles for it. > > > > My personal opinion is that we should really try to consolidate on src.fp.o > > and instead of investing time in porting packages to more recent > > technologies we should put that effort in adding the missing features to > > src.fp.o. > > > > If we lose the packages app, we'll lose the only way to search for > binary packages. src.fp.o only shows source package names, and most > people aren't going to know what those are.
FWIW, a feature of the packages app I use *all the time* is bugz.fedoraproject.org/<packagename> . I can do everything I use that for in other ways, sure, but it's a fantastically helpful shortcut for finding and reporting bugs in <packagename>. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ infrastructure mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]
