[aur-general] Update notifications
Hi, I was thinking it could be useful to show in comments when a new version is pushed by the maintainer of a package; just a line break and maybe v1 -> v2 or the git commit message or something. It would be easier to make sense of comments on many of the packages I've seen and allow us to see if comments pertain to the current version or not without losing comment history. Cheers, Justin
On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 7:12 PM, Justin Dray <justin@dray.be> wrote:
Hi,
I was thinking it could be useful to show in comments when a new version is pushed by the maintainer of a package; just a line break and maybe v1 -> v2 or the git commit message or something. It would be easier to make sense of comments on many of the packages I've seen and allow us to see if comments pertain to the current version or not without losing comment history.
Cheers, Justin
Why not just check the last updated date? -- Eli Schwartz
Why not just check the last updated date? -- Eli Schwartz Because that would only work for the current version, and back one, this way you could see the relevant change happening after an issue is reported and such. It seems like a much easier way to view the differences to me at least. - Justin
On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 9:13 PM, Justin Dray <justin@dray.be> wrote:
Because that would only work for the current version, and back one, this way you could see the relevant change happening after an issue is reported and such. It seems like a much easier way to view the differences to me at least.
- Justin
What does it matter which particular version fixes something? Surely the important thing is it is fixed... and if the issue was reported before the latest version, then presumably it was fixed. As you said "and allow us to see if comments pertain to the current version". If you would like to go a step further and say "allow us to see which comments pertain to which historic versions", then by all means say so :) however I don't see the need. -- Eli Schwartz
Might be irreverent to this topic, but we ArchlinuxCN community have this tool `nvchecker`[1] that can check updates of version numbers for packages. It currently have support for pulling version infomation from aur4/aur, github, pypi, and many other upsteam sources. It records the current version number in a plain text format, and configures in INI format. It can be extended to send desktop notifications, emails, or trigger other commands like building the packages. It is written and maintained by lilydjwg, as a part of our `lilac`[2] package build bot for ArchlinuxCN repository [3]. But it can be used completely standalone. [1] http://lilydjwg.github.io/nvchecker/ [2] https://github.com/archlinuxcn/lilac [3] https://github.com/archlinuxcn/repo BTW, I do think merging git commit messages into package comments might be helpful. On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 9:12 AM, Justin Dray <justin@dray.be> wrote:
Hi,
I was thinking it could be useful to show in comments when a new version is pushed by the maintainer of a package; just a line break and maybe v1 -> v2 or the git commit message or something. It would be easier to make sense of comments on many of the packages I've seen and allow us to see if comments pertain to the current version or not without losing comment history.
Cheers, Justin
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* Justin Dray <justin@dray.be> (Tue, 23 Jun 2015 00:12:26 +0000):
I was thinking it could be useful to show in comments when a new version is pushed by the maintainer of a package; just a line break and maybe v1 -> v2 or the git commit message or something. It would be easier to make sense of comments on many of the packages I've seen and allow us to see if comments pertain to the current version or not without losing comment history.
This is already a feature request: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/30109 Moreover, in AUR4 you're able to see old commit messages by clicking on 'View changes'. I'm not in favour of cluttering comments with update messages, unless it's something important. Some packages have lots of updates and then one has to plough through all those update comments to see if there's something useful in there. Best, Marcel
On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 11:49:22 +0200 Marcel Korpel <marcel.korpel@gmail.com> wrote:
* Justin Dray <justin@dray.be> (Tue, 23 Jun 2015 00:12:26 +0000):
I was thinking it could be useful to show in comments when a new version is pushed by the maintainer of a package; just a line break and maybe v1 -> v2 or the git commit message or something. It would be easier to make sense of comments on many of the packages I've seen and allow us to see if comments pertain to the current version or not without losing comment history.
This is already a feature request: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/30109
Moreover, in AUR4 you're able to see old commit messages by clicking on 'View changes'. I'm not in favour of cluttering comments with update messages, unless it's something important. Some packages have lots of updates and then one has to plough through all those update comments to see if there's something useful in there.
I'd be in favor of having such comments. Possibly as a user option to display the comments. -- Joakim
On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 7:12 AM, Justin Dray <justin@dray.be> wrote:
Hi,
I was thinking it could be useful to show in comments when a new version is pushed by the maintainer of a package; just a line break and maybe v1 -> v2 or the git commit message or something. It would be easier to make sense of comments on many of the packages I've seen and allow us to see if comments pertain to the current version or not without losing comment history.
Cheers, Justin
I am agree. It could be also useful to mark comments between different versions.
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Eli Schwartz
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Jiachen Yang
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Joakim Hernberg
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Justin Dray
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Marcel Korpel
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