On Sun, 2008-03-02 at 03:53 -0700, Alex Lancaster wrote: > I wonder if the formatting of the rawhide reports could be altered > slightly to show the broken deps *first* before the list of new and > updated packages? This way the current state of the brokenness (or > otherwise) of rawhide is more obvious to all maintainers, currently > you have to scroll to the end of the report to see it. > > I'm aware that individual maintainers get separate nagmail whenever > they have a broken package in the rawhide repo, but the reverse is not > necessarily true. That is, a maintainer that updates a package that > breaks a downstream dependent package isn't necessarily aware of the > extent of the breakage caused. Having the broken deps up-front would > hopefully work somewhat against that tendency. > > It would also allow at-a-glance the general state of rawhide and > hopefully motivate maintainers to think about the distro as a whole > and keep the list of broken deps as short as possible. (Maybe also > include a diff on whether the length of deps has increased or > decreased since the last rawhide?) I'm aware that sometimes there is > a large (but transient) breakage across the distro, but also there > appear to be packages that have persisted for several weeks without > being fixed and seeing the same broken package week after week in the > report might motivate others to fix it (I know it has for me in the > past). > > Getting the broken deps list shortened is especially necessary given > the upcoming alpha freeze. > > Alex > I think this is a great idea. Since the focus of the report will be on fixing broken deps. Cheers, Marc -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
