Re: Would a Guix QA page be helpful?

[Bengt Richter <bokr@bokr.com>]

Hi Christopher,

tl;dr: +1 :)

On +2021-02-06 20:20:04 +0000, Christopher Baines wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> The Guix Data Service has been getting better at finding problems, but
> getting that data requires knowing it exists, and where to find it, and
> clicking all the relevant links.
> 
> I've been wondering if it would be good to have a QA page that just
> summarises and links to this information, things like:
> 
>  - Broken packages
>  - Broken system tests
>  - Broken fixed output package derivations
>  - Lint warnings
>  - ...
> 
> While I'd really like to get to a place where less packages and system
> tests are unintentionally broken, and less lint warnings are
> unintentionally introduced, at the moment, there are plenty of these
> problems. There's also things like the broken package sources, where
> there will probably always be new breakages being introduced.
> 
> Given the Guix Data Service can look at what's changed within a time
> period on a branch, recent breakages could also be displayed.
> 
> This could potentially sit at qa.guix.gnu.org.
> 
> Any thoughts?
>

Mainly, please represent the info so that a person can get it with wget
and extract items with grep or simple tool and inspect with any editor.

I.e., some form of structured text. Someone will make a shiny browser interface,
but don't please don't make that a dependency for access to the data.

And please use '+%F %T ' date format for time stamps, UTC, so one doesn't
have to wonder what year it was when looking at an old copy/paste or screen capture ;-)

That'd be enough to please me, anyway :)
Good tags for searching are helpful, of course.

> Thanks,
> 
> Chris
-- 
Regards,
Bengt Richter