Cyril Brulebois: > Hey folks, > > I haven't been following release team things lately, so I might have > missed something: do we have a tool that parses/consumes excuses.yaml > yet? A few years back, I had a tool look at update_excuses.html and > generate graphs/clusters of packages failing to migrate, with their > close friends. > > Digging into puppetdb manually[1] made me think about possibly porting > it to use excuses.yaml instead, but maybe something else was developed > in the meanwhile? > > 1. https://twitter.com/CyrilBrulebois/status/1078514866397286401 > > Maybe it would make sense to generate those graphs and include them > somewhere (release.d.o or tracker.d.o) to make it easier for people > to figure out what packages are involved in a given migration, instead > of having to click through possibly many packages? > > (cc's welcome, thanks) > > > Cheers, > Hi KiBi, I think that would be a splendid idea to have such a tool. :) I am tempted to say it should live in the britney2 repo, so we can include it in our test cases and remember to update it if/when the format changes. :) I am less sure of a place to host the generated graphs (we can host them on release.d.o if the size/bandwidth requirements are low, but it would surprise me with the scale of packages in sid vs. testing) Thanks, ~Niels
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