[Soc-coordination] [Package Tracking System rewrite] Week 8 - August 9 - Status Report

[Marko Lalic]

Hello,

The previous week went according to plan; all planned stories were completed:

- The framework for TODOs and problems panels. Allows other modules to
provide TODOs/Problems entries which are displayed in the respective
panel.

- Bug-related todos and problems. A problem entry when there is a the
package has a bug tagged "help" and a todo entry when there is a bug
tagged "patch". They give the bug counts and links to the BTS.

- Lintian summary information. When there are errors or warnings found
by lintian, a todo entry is added displaying their counts and
appropriate links. A link to the package on lintian.debian.org (on the
maintainer's page) is added to the links panel, along with the
errors/warnings count if available.

- Outdated standards-version warnings. A todo entry when the package's
standards version is older than the current Policy version.
Additionally, a problems entry if the major version is also older than
the current Policy major version number. The current Policy version is
retrieved as the version of the debian-policy package in the "default"
repository; it is no longer hardcoded as in the current PTS.

- Testing migration status information. The "testing migration" panel
(as in the current PTS) which shows any migrations that the package is
part of. Additionally, any excuses [1] are also extracted and
displayed with links to other packages being replaced to link to the
matching PTS page.

- Collect news by email. Allows creating news from received emails.
Any emails passed to this management command with the X-PTS-Package
header create a news for the package given in that header
automatically, with the content of the news being the message itself.
It is also allowed for vendors to implement a function which provides
news items for received emails, based on their own rules. Also, thanks
to the previous work on the news framework, any inline signatures in
the emails are extracted automatically.
  For Debian, news items are created for accepted source packages, dak
rm emails, and testing watch package emails.

As always, you can see this deployed on pts.debian.net.

For now, the plan for next week is shorter by one workday, since the
weekly meeting with my mentors is scheduled a day earlier, as they are
not able to attend in the usual time due to debconf. The next report
will include any possible extra stories which are finished in the
meantime. The stories planned are:

- Create a framework for an "action needed" panel. Even though the
stories implemented and described above regarding package todos and
problems mirror the current PTS, we want to take this rewrite
opportunity to make some improvements. The todos and problems are
going to be consolidated into a single "action needed" panel. Each
item will also be stored in the database, thereby allowing other
modules to use the data, e.g. filtering by problem type and displaying
each package with that particular problem.
  Also, the displayed text will be made shorter than it currently is,
giving only the most important information. A more detailed
description can be provided and appears in a popup when the user
clicks on a question mark next to the short description. (If
Javascript is disabled, a new page is opened.)

- Migrate the currently implemented todos/problems to the "action needed" panel.

- Build log check information. Provide links to buildd and clang build
logs in the links panel. Add an action needed entry if there are any
errors or warnings found in buildd logcheck data.

- Watch file scanner information summary. Add an action needed entry
if there is a newer package version upstream. An action needed entry
is also added if the package's watch file is broken and if there is a
new watch file available.

That's it for now. Thanks for reading.

Cheers,
Marko

[1] http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/update_excuses.html

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Marko Lalić

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