On 5/22/25 4:41 PM, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
On Thu May 22, 2025 at 9:54 AM BST, Marc Haber wrote:That noone has done this yet is a sign for me that we don't actually need it so urgently. I think the distribution has more pressing things to solve.Back in 2011 I did write a front-end to the BTS in an attempt to address the UX problem. I called it DebGTD. It's long dead now but some notes, screenshots etc. are at <https://jmtd.net/software/debgtd/>.I'd approach the problem very differently today, but as a starting point building on top of the existing BTS as a back-end (as Guix have done) seems sound to me.The other big issue with the BTS, mentioned elsewhere, is the batch/ delay element, which would not be addressed by an alternative UX on top, and would require other clever ideas.
About the delay issue: As far as I understood is things are handled with a cron job which triggers the queue processing. I don't know the specifics, sorry, but is it that hard to create an event based mechanism to trigger this processing pipeline, to reduce the waiting times?
Cheers, H.
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