On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 01:38:28PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > I would like to have a patches panel on the distro-tracker that might > look something like the attached mockup for Debian. The possible fields > of the Debian version of the panel are as follows, many of them can't be > implemented right now but are still interesting to mention for future > work once the services backing them exist. > > Debian: the count of patches Debian applies to this package, as reported > by the Debian patch tracking service (currently down). So, implementing something like the old patch-tracker.d.o system on top of Debsources/sources.debian.net is currently on the roadmap of Debsources, and it is possible (though not certain yet) that we will get to it during the upcoming GSoC projects that I'm mentoring. I'd like to avoid duplication of work, so I've subscribed to this bug report to stay on top of the tracker.d.o plans on this front. I think it makes sense to _generate_ Debian patch information in Debsources, because we already have all the source packages, in both packed and unpacked form. For what concerns tracker.d.o, am I right in assuming that tracker will be happy with being able to simply _consume_ Debian patch information generated by some other service, possibly Debsources? AFAICT that would be enough to implement what Paul is asking here (for Debian; other distros pose different problems, and are currently not indexed by Debsources). If so, we should standardize a patch information exchange format. Ideally, something that is derivative agnostic. Thanks for this bug report, Paul. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . zack@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . . . o . . . o o Former Debian Project Leader . . @zack on identi.ca . . o o o . . . o . « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club »
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