[arch-dev-public] Package Colours - better visual information
2008/9/29 Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com>:
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 9:23 PM, Giovanni Scafora <linuxmania at gmail.com> wrote:
2008/9/28, Jud <jud at judfilm.net>:
I had an idea to improve the information provided to the user and indicate a clearer picture of the status of a Package via the website.
Package Colours - 6 Major states of a Package ----------------------------------------------- Black - latest version, all ok
Blue - latest version, bug report(s) outstanding
Red - out-of-date
Yellow - out-of-date, new package in Testing
Orange - out-of-date, new package in Testing, bug report(s) outstanding
Purple/Magenta - out-of-date, bug report(s) outstanding
It would be a good idea. +1
It's a nice idea, but the "outstanding bugs" part would be difficult for us, as Flyspray is not integrated into the system... I'm sure we could do the "outdated, new package in testing" part though. Dusty? Would this be a lot of work?
Excepting the flyspray integration it shouldn't be too much work to do it hackishly, but to do it properly would be a bit of a chore. Currently there isn't much of a connection between packages in core and packages in testing, since testing is just another repo. My head keeps bouncing around ideas for redesigning the web package models to support more of a 'workflow' style that would support this and some of Jud's other ideas more intuitively, but right now I need to find some way to get the time for this.
I'm also getting fired up about creating a new bug tracker that integrates with the package system that would make some of this other stuff more trivial. I don't much like flyspray and this would be a good start for some of my other plans. But again, I need to rearrange my life so I can take more time for these things first.
In the meantime, Jud, can you file a bug report for this so I don't forget it. My memory is getting shorter and shorter these days.
Dusty
This part was cut off all the replies: " I'm not picky about the colours as long as it seems logical. Also, I have filed this as a feature request: FS#11604 - http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/11604 " @ Dusty - What can "we" do to help you get this organised?
2008/9/29 Jud
2008/9/29 Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com>:
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 9:23 PM, Giovanni Scafora <linuxmania at gmail.com> wrote:
2008/9/28, Jud <jud at judfilm.net>:
I had an idea to improve the information provided to the user and indicate a clearer picture of the status of a Package via the website.
Package Colours - 6 Major states of a Package ----------------------------------------------- Black - latest version, all ok
Blue - latest version, bug report(s) outstanding
Red - out-of-date
Yellow - out-of-date, new package in Testing
Orange - out-of-date, new package in Testing, bug report(s) outstanding
Purple/Magenta - out-of-date, bug report(s) outstanding
It would be a good idea. +1
It's a nice idea, but the "outstanding bugs" part would be difficult for us, as Flyspray is not integrated into the system... I'm sure we could do the "outdated, new package in testing" part though. Dusty? Would this be a lot of work?
Excepting the flyspray integration it shouldn't be too much work to do it hackishly, but to do it properly would be a bit of a chore. Currently there isn't much of a connection between packages in core and packages in testing, since testing is just another repo. My head keeps bouncing around ideas for redesigning the web package models to support more of a 'workflow' style that would support this and some of Jud's other ideas more intuitively, but right now I need to find some way to get the time for this.
I'm also getting fired up about creating a new bug tracker that integrates with the package system that would make some of this other stuff more trivial. I don't much like flyspray and this would be a good start for some of my other plans. But again, I need to rearrange my life so I can take more time for these things first.
In the meantime, Jud, can you file a bug report for this so I don't forget it. My memory is getting shorter and shorter these days.
Dusty
This part was cut off all the replies: " I'm not picky about the colours as long as it seems logical.
Also, I have filed this as a feature request: FS#11604 - http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/11604 "
oops, I knew that. See the short memory reference. =)
@ Dusty - What can "we" do to help you get this organised?
Pay me a salary. :-D As always, patches are welcome, but I don't even have time to integrate them right now. In a couple days I'll be taking some time to knock of some of the 'simple' requests I've let pile up (I've been on vacation). That will include this one and a few new mirror requests. I also need to either finish porting archweb to django 1.0 or starting a new design as discussed above. Dusty
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