Re: The $HISTORY part in reporting/html_reports
On 2011-09-03 08:35, Jordà Polo wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 07:13:52PM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote:
>> I vaguely recall this "$HISTORY" variable being mention in a debate a
>> while back. Something about it should be enabled or so on lintian.d.o.
>> Checking lintian.d.o it appears to be off, so should I enable it? And
>> should it be on by default in reporting/config?
>
> Thanks for reminding me again.
>
> Enabling it should be OK. This variable is basically used to record the
> number of emitted tags from previous lintian executions.
>
> The part that is missing is using "history" data to plot the evolution
> of lintian tags. The code is in fact already written, but not yet
> committed to the repository since I wanted to test it on real data. Once
> $HISTORY is enabled, I'll do the remaining work: I'll basically need the
> generated files, say, a couple of weeks or a month after enabling it, so
> that there is enough data to test (and enough data to show on the
> website).
>
> No need to enable by default (at least for now).
>
>
Hey,
Sorry to "re-start" an old thread, but is there any progress with this?
I was asked about it over IRC today. :)
~Niels
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