On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 02:42:51PM -0400, Randy Barlow wrote:
On Thu, 2019-10-24 at 20:12 +0200, Clement Verna wrote:
The packages app (https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/) was originally running on RHEL6, I tried to move it to RHEL 7 but they were some dependencies missing there so we decided to move it to Fedora. I don't remember which dependencies were missing tho. One of the pain point is that the frontend is rendered using moksha/tosca widgets (http://toscawidgets.org/) and this is pretty much a dead upstream project. Removing these dependencies is not going to be trivial.
OK. Given our extreme time constraints, I think it is likely that we will have to retire the Packages app.
However, there is one feature in it that I personally believe does map to the CPE team's mission statement: the table of which versions of a package are in which versions of Fedora/EPEL.
I think we should do *something* to continue to provide that particular feature to packagers. I have a proposal:
What if we make a fedpkg subcommand that prints that table? I think it could get all the needed data by querying Koji.
I suggest this instead of a webapp or service, because webapps and services increase the burden on the CPE team, and also because creating an entire application just to print a table is a lot of boilerplate.
Adding it to fedpkg feels clean to me, because it seems like a sensible place for such a feature to exist, and because it *should* be simple and easy. Simple is good!
I may be able to find the time to make this happen before April too.
Thoughts?
Something like https://pagure.io/fedora-ci/general/issue/raw/files/0febd8de2561c4e3e463b221... which is merged in git and will be in the next release?
Pierre