Re: The packages app has a short runway

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On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 3:48 PM Clement Verna <cverna@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Fri, Oct 25, 2019, 21:42 Randy Barlow <bowlofeggs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> On Fri, 2019-10-25 at 14:53 -0400, Neal Gompa wrote:
>> > It's not a bad feature to have in fedpkg, but it fundamentally does
>> > not help *other people* discover what we have in the distribution.
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>> Yeah I've discussed this a bit with some people, and I agree. Fedora
>> *users* might use the packages app to find out the same info that
>> packagers want to find out.
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>> However, I think that even though users and packagers are coming to
>> this app for the same purpose, only one of those purposes maps to the
>> CPE team's mission statement: the packager's. If you are a packager,
>> you *need* to know what versions are where at a glance, especially when
>> dealing with something high priority like a CVE.
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>> That's not to say that the end-user story isn't a valuable use case,
>> but our team is overburdened and we need to drop most of what we do
>> right now, and we have to be specific about what our purpose is. This
>> means dropping some valuable use cases.
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> https://pkgs.org/ might be a good replacement for that. Does anybody have used or is using this website ? Any feedback on it ?
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Some of the searching is a little awkward. It does let you see stuff
across distributions, but a lot of Fedora-specific information isn't
present.

Unfortunately, improving pkgs.org is impossible as the author is hard
to get ahold of and the software is not FOSS.


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