Bug#897225: tracker.debian.org: allow adding custom modifications
Hi,
On Mon, 30 Apr 2018, Markus Koschany wrote:
> tracker's package overview is very helpful in gathering a lot of
> information about certain packages. It would be even more useful if
> maintainers or teams were able to add custom information to it. I
> currently count nine "tables" (lists), general, versions, versioned links,
> binaries, action needed, news, bugs, links and ubuntu.
The old PTS was able to display "static news" provided by the maintainer.
We got rid of that feature which was not really used.
Example here:
https://packages.qa.debian.org/d/debian-cd.html
> It would be great if we (maintainers or teams) could add a new
> column/table and customize it with additional information and add new
> entries to one of the existing tables.
I think we need to be a more specific here. I don't think we need to be
able add arbitrary tables with custom content. There must be some
pre-defined structure.
Also you mention adding new entries to existing tables. Which tables are
you thinking of? It certainly doesn't make sense to be able to add custom
data to all tables.
I think "news" and "links" (maybe general) are the only ones where it
might be interesting. Combining all those three, I'm not sure that I see
any need to have a new table with content provided by the maintainer.
Also when you think of team-provided data, you probably want a way to add
the same news or link to all packages belonging to the team. But a package
can be part of multiple teams and only of those team is the true
maintainance team. How do we decide which one is the authoritative one?
> The reasoning for that could be that teams want to highlight contact
> information, work flows or announce important issues, transitions,
> things to be aware of.
The downside is that this is yet more data to maintain and that is likely
to become stale/outdated at some point.
Cheers,
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Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer
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