Re: The packages app has a short runway

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On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 02:42:51PM -0400, Randy Barlow wrote:
> On Thu, 2019-10-24 at 20:12 +0200, Clement Verna wrote:
> > The packages app (https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/) was
> > originally running on RHEL6, I tried to move it to RHEL 7 but they
> > were some dependencies missing there so we decided to move it to
> > Fedora. I don't remember which dependencies were missing tho. One of
> > the pain point is that the frontend is rendered using moksha/tosca
> > widgets (http://toscawidgets.org/) and this is pretty much a dead
> > upstream project. Removing these dependencies is not going to be
> > trivial.
> 
> OK. Given our extreme time constraints, I think it is likely that we
> will have to retire the Packages app.
> 
> However, there is one feature in it that I personally believe does map
> to the CPE team's mission statement: the table of which versions of a
> package are in which versions of Fedora/EPEL.
> 
> I think we should do *something* to continue to provide that particular
> feature to packagers. I have a proposal:
> 
> What if we make a fedpkg subcommand that prints that table? I think it
> could get all the needed data by querying Koji.
> 
> I suggest this instead of a webapp or service, because webapps and
> services increase the burden on the CPE team, and also because creating
> an entire application just to print a table is a lot of boilerplate.
> 
> Adding it to fedpkg feels clean to me, because it seems like a sensible
> place for such a feature to exist, and because it *should* be simple
> and easy. Simple is good!
> 
> I may be able to find the time to make this happen before April too.
> 
> Thoughts?

Something like
https://pagure.io/fedora-ci/general/issue/raw/files/0febd8de2561c4e3e463b221a46214a7cbf5743717af1d4fdeff4d71378b405c-pagure_bodhi_updates.png
which is merged in git and will be in the next release?

Pierre
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