2008/9/29 Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com>:

On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 9:23 PM, Giovanni Scafora <linuxmania@gmail.com> wrote:

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2008/9/28, Jud <jud@judfilm.net>:

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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Red - out-of-date

Yellow - out-of-date, new package in Testing

Orange - out-of-date, new package in Testing, bug report(s) outstanding

Purple/Magenta - out-of-date, bug report(s) outstanding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 I'm sure we could do the "outdated, new package in testing" part though.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