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From: Bengt Richter <bokr@bokr.com>
To: Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Would a Guix QA page be helpful?
Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2021 22:13:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210207211319.GA14023@LionPure> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k0rlx823.fsf@cbaines.net>

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


  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-02-07 21:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-06 20:20 Would a Guix QA page be helpful? Christopher Baines
2021-02-06 21:02 ` Léo Le Bouter
2021-02-06 21:52 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-02-07 21:13 ` Bengt Richter [this message]
2021-02-08  0:26   ` zimoun
2021-02-07 22:41 ` Björn Höfling
2021-02-08  0:28 ` zimoun

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