On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 12:57 AM Jonathan Glines <auntie...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2015/04/10 15:54 "Bjørn Forsman" <bjorn.fors...@gmail.com>: > > > > > > On 10 April 2015 at 23:35, Jonathan Glines <auntie...@gmail.com> wrote: > > [...] > > > I think it would be useful to have a "bump bot" for nixpkgs that could > > > scan meta data and catalog exactly which packages are out of date. The > > > bot would pull data from multiple sources (package mirrors, other > > > distros, security feeds) to warn about major version bumps and > > > security advisories. Maintainers could then use output from the bot to > > > see at a glance which of their packages are out of date. Maybe even > > > with a web interface with graphs and charts to compare against other > > > Linux distros and upstream. Distrowatch already does something similar > > > for select few important packages. > > > > Sounds very much like the Nixpkgs Monitor :-) > > Wow, that's amazing. How did you set that up so quickly? ;) > The Monitor has been there for a year or so. > > http://monitor.nixos.org/ > > > > - Bjørn > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev >
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