Re: [gentoo-dev] Keyword request interface (SoC candidate?)

[Richard Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>]

Santiago M. Mola wrote:
> 
> I've been talking about it with some users and everyone agrees that
> they would like to have such an interface...
> 
> What do you think about? Would it be easy to integrate it with
> packages.g.o or should it belong somewhere else? Do you think this is
> a suitable project for SoC?

I like the idea, although it is a bit redundant with bugzilla.  One 
thing that would be nice is better workflow management.  Right now it 
would be nice as an arch dev to be able to get a list of all stable 
requests that have been checked by an arch tester on my arch - that 
isn't simple now.  We used to keyword bugs STABLE or TESTED but I don't 
think that anybody is doing that any more - and it breaks down when you 
have 7 archs CC'ed on a bug anyway (which one is tested?).

The fundamental issue, though, is that keywording obscure packages is 
not trivial.  I cringe when I see a stable request for some dialup 
networking package - I doubt many devs even own modems these days.

A tool like the one proposed could even raise questions about how more 
obscure packages should be maintained.  Maybe all interested users could 
subscribe to a package and then vote on when they will go stable.  If 
66% of users interested in a package vote that a package is stable then 
a dev would have discretion to just keyword it without any testing at 
all (obviously this would not be done with critical packages, but the 
world isn't going to end if autopano-sift breaks down on some edge 
case).  It also gets users more involved in the QA process and is a 
little less "cathedral" like...
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