[csw-maintainers] Preliminary package reviews

Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski maciej at opencsw.org
Mon Aug 16 10:12:28 CEST 2010


It's quite common that one of maintainers sends e-mail to the mailing
list asking others to review / test a package, but gets no feedback.
I've got an idea that for preliminary reviews, a HTML or a text view
of a package could be useful.  It would show things like pkginfo and
pkgmap, with the intention of reviewing the way one software project
is split into subpackages, where and what are the binaries, etc.  The
idea is that it's much quicker to click a link and view a page than
dissect a file in a terminal session.  Some maintainers wouldn't have
time to dissect packages by hand, but they could quickly review a HTML
report and offer feedback.

I've prepared a prototype view:

http://bender.opencsw.org/~maciej/pkg-review-prototype.html

Thoughts?

Maciej


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