Thanks for opening the issues on the bts... any help in implementing these features would be highly welcome.
2015-05-07 17:13 GMT+02:00 Markus Mottl <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > awesome, that's a very helpful service, thanks for your work! > > Here are two features that would be great to have: email notifications > if a maintainer has failing packages. A search function that searches > the list of package maintainers so that people can get a quick > overview of all packages they maintain. > > Best regards, > Markus > > On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 10:38 AM, Roberto Di Cosmo <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Dear fellow Opam developers, > > > > We are proud to announce the first public release of a new and fully > > refactored version of OWS, the Opam Weather Service, and we are now > reaching out > > to everybody on opam-devel for feedback and contribution to its > evolution. > > > > If you are in hurry, the short message is: > > > > - explore the dashboard available online at http://ows.irill.org/ ! > > > > The packages listed there are arranged by package name and sorted > according > > to the number of issues found on all available versions, you can > click on a > > package to get details of these issues, and zone-in on specific > packages > > using the search box. > > > > On http://ows.irill.org/latest/today/summary.html you will find the > list of > > the causes of package installability problems, sorted by their > impact: > > packages causing the largest number of problems come first, to help > focus > > developer energy when improving the quality of the Opam repository > > > > - use this information to look after the packages you are responsible > for: > > hints on how to fix dependency issues are displayed for each package > > > > - if you want new features, make suggestions or report a bug, look at > the > > source code, available under AGPL from > https://github.com/OCamlPro/ows > > You are very welcome to contribute using github > > > > -- > > Pietro Abate, Roberto Di Cosmo, Louis Gesbert and Fabrice Le Fessant > > > > > > Here are more details for who wants to know more. > > ------------------------------------------------- > > > > OWS and distcheck > > > > Built on top of the distcheck tool from the dose library [1], OWS scans > daily > > the packages in the Opam repository to spot all packages that cannot be > > installed at all because of dependency issues, and presents a dashboard > that > > provides a bird's eye overview of the state of the repository. > > > > This static check is blazingly fast and does not require any physical > > installation: it catches *all* dependency issues, and it catches *only* > > dependency issues, so it does not replaces the other testing tools that > are > > needed to catch compilation, configuration and installation issues > encountered > > when actually deploying a package. > > > > A dashboard based on distcheck has been used in the Debian distribution > for > > almost ten years [2], and we know well that it can be extremely > beneficial to > > improve a package repository if it is properly integrated in a quality > assurance > > process. > > > > A full paper describing how distcheck has been used is going to be > presented at > > MSR 2015 in a week [3]; a preprint is already availabe [4]. > > > > The new OWS > > -------------------- > > > > An experimental prototype of OWS has been running for almost a year; the > new > > version we unveil today is rebuilt from scratch in order to: > > > > - clearly separate the presentation of the results in a dashboard from > the > > distcheck backend from dose: this required changes to opam, dose and > > distcheck > > > > - provide improved presentation of the results, in order to facilitate > > the identification of the most problematic packages > > > > - make available all relevant source code, properly released under an > > Open Source licence, written by Pietro Abate (Inria/Irill) > > > > [1] http://dose.gforge.inria.fr/ > > [2] http://qa.debian.org/dose > > [3] http://2015.msrconf.org/program.php > > [4] http://www.dicosmo.org/preprints/msr-2015-distcheck.pdf > > _______________________________________________ > > opam-devel mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.ocaml.org/listinfo/opam-devel > > > > -- > Markus Mottl http://www.ocaml.info [email protected] > -- Roberto Di Cosmo ------------------------------------------------------------------ Professeur En delegation a l'INRIA PPS E-mail: [email protected] Universite Paris Diderot WWW : http://www.dicosmo.org Case 7014 Tel : ++33-(0)1-57 27 92 20 5, Rue Thomas Mann F-75205 Paris Cedex 13 Identica: http://identi.ca/rdicosmo FRANCE. 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