Bug#332938: qa.debian.org: please provide a user/tester view with workflow progress status
Pierre M <adrpmym@yahoo.fr> writes:
> Outside of Debian, you see this :
> http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=debian
> (may be not up to date, may be same problems as dehs, but interesting)
Looking at this briefly, it appears to be mostly nonsense. The accuracy
rate of statements on it about unstable or etch looks to be running at
about 50%, and even when it's accurate about some things, it has some
obvious bad ideas (listing 2.2.0 as the current best version for Apache,
for instance).
> "Inside" Debian, you begin with this :
> http://packages.debian.org/etch/ (err 404)
Where did you get that URL from? http://www.debian.org/releases/
correctly links to http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/.
> It then links you to popcon stats http://popcon.debian.org/ but there
> are two more "sites" I discovered I don't remember how :
> http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/ answers the tester question "Why is package
> X not in testing yet ?" (the number 2 question of a tester)
This site is really not particularly useful to people other than Debian
developers; too much of the information is technical or related to the
inner workings of the testing migration.
> http://dehs.alioth.debian.org/ the nirvana asks the tester's question
> "why the dd isn't packaging current upstream software ?"
No, it doesn't. It answers the question of whether the version in
unstable appears to be up to date, which is a completely different
question.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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