Gentoo-stats and gentoo-stable overlap in package reporting. If a package is reported present on gentoo-stats, then it could be reported as merged on gentoo-stable except in the case of injected packages. The current menu structure of gentoo-stable is massive. The process of manually entering results from the provided unstable script to gentoo-stable is very time consuming and tedious even though the interface is simple and straightforward. The addition to gentoo-stable would be a menu for users who chose to associate their gentoo-stats ID with their gentoo-stable login ID. This menu would have four columns: package name, package version, a checkbox for succesful merge, and a checkbox for working. Gentoo-stats and gentoo-stable would remain otherwise unchanged. Correlating gentoo-stats system IDs to gentoo-stable login IDs would benefit the user and the developer. With this new system, the user could easily confim that the packages reported merged on his system were actually merged (not injected), and that the user has tested to see they work reliably. Because reporting merged and working packages is simpler and less time consuming, the developers should expect more response from the users.
Alec, would you be interested in working on doing this (officially, as a gentoo developer)? Please e-me, if so.
Please consider helping tie this into something larger than itself. See my Udder project proposal at http://cvs.gentoo.org/~zwelch/groupware.html for another idea of how this functionality might be leveraged.
On the topic of feature requests for stable, it would be nice if a package could be marked on a scale. I often find that a new component works pretty much as it should, but every now and then it shows some signs of missbehaving. Usually it is completely unreproductible and therefore submitting a bug is quite useless. This sort of behavior is most common in big and complex packages like xfree. Considdering I know how rock-stable *x programs can be I feel hesitant to mark a program as completely stable if it is only as stable as your regular Windows system. My 2 cens. //Daniel Armyr Singapore
Grab me on irc or mail me if you want some extra hands working on the Perl aspect (client side) of this.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 30923 ***
