[Mageia-sysadm] Toys&Tools for Mageia Infrastructure

Tue Jan 3 12:49:49 CET 2012

On Friday, 16 December 2011 03:20:42 Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
+> Hello!
+> 
+> As we all know more important for a Linux distribution than packaging
+> itself is the infrastructure.
+> 
+> I'd like to contribute doing some toy projects, that may be useful for
+> the others. Here are some of my ideas (some of them are already working
+> as a preview):
+> 1. *Mageia packages maintainership daily statistics* - It's already
+> working here http://kamil.mageia.org.pl/MageiaStats/
+> 2. *SVN searcher* - Preview is working here
+> http://kamil.mageia.org.pl/svnsearch.cgi - data is a few weeks old,
+> twice synced
+> 3. *Missing dependencies daily statistics*  - to-be done
+
+Have you seen http://check.mageia.org/ , e.g. 
+http://check.mageia.org/dependencies.html ?
+
+> 4. *Statistics about our packagers* (like https://cia.vc - but more
+> information) - to-be done
+> 5. *Build server statistics* - to-be done
+
+
+
+> And a few more ideas.
+> 
+> Some of the projects above are more toys than tools, but anyway I find
+> them handy (like the maintainership statistics).
+
+Well, IMHO, as a maintainer, it would be nice to have a single portal, where 
+all the packaging-related tasks could be summarised, e.g.:
+
+-Packages with outstanding security bugs
+-Packages in stable release with outstanding bugs
+-Packages in cauldron with critical problems (e.g. or other error preventing 
+installation)
+-Packages where update is available
+-Unmaintained packages you have committed on
+-Package in backports for a stable release with newer version in cauldron
+
+Ultimately, I would actually want it to have a 'fix' button in some cases :-).
+
+I think to get there, we ideally need Youri::Check to be able to write to a 
+database, and write one nice web app to present all the information, in 
+various contexts (e.g. typical user, contributor, tester, QA etc.).
+
+Regards,
+Buchan
+