On 6/4/24 12:13 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> I don't want to be too picky as the core language maintainers have A
> LOT of work to do, but part of the challenge is that it isn't very
> obvious to a package maintainer (or anybody else) what packages
> actually have problems.  It is obvious if you actually look at a
> package, but many maintainers have a large number of packages and some
> are co-maintained, and knowing that one of your 100 packages wasn't
> updated yet isn't easy.  I'm not sure if somebody has a tool for
> finding these packages in the tree, but some kind of reporting on that
> would help.


It's less grim than you think.

https://qa-reports.gentoo.org/

Check out "python reports" -- the list for those missing in testing, not
the list for those present in testing but needing a stablereq.


> Such reports need to be indexed to maintainers as well,
> because getting a list of 1000 package names that need updating
> doesn't help a maintainer to notice that they happen to maintain the
> one on line 387.


And indeed, the list includes the names of the maintainers, so just grep
for yourself (or teams you are a member of).


-- 
Eli Schwartz

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