Happy New Year! One of my wishes for +1 Maintenance has been to have automated tooling to answer the question for developers, "what is the next thing in -proposed that it's a priority for me to work on?"
We're pretty far from this goal, but one small piece of it is to identify clusters of packages in -proposed that all have to migrate together ("transitions") where relatively small amounts of work make a big difference for unsticking -proposed. As this is a very awkward question to answer by reading update_excuses.html, I've (finally) written a helper tool, find-proposed-cluster, that analyzes update_excuses.yaml for this, and have committed the tool to lp:ubuntu-archive-tools. Examples: $ find-proposed-cluster python3-defaults 261 qtbase-opensource-src 80 qt6-base 24 gnat 22 bctoolbox 10 $ $ find-proposed-cluster --limit 20 python3-defaults 261 qtbase-opensource-src 80 qt6-base 24 gnat 22 bctoolbox 10 fenics-dolfinx 8 rust-parking-lot 7 rust-cargo 6 rust-darling 5 rust-git2 5 deal.ii 4 dolfin 4 r-cran-spatstat 4 r-cran-sf 4 rust-html2pango 4 rust-bat 4 qt6-quick3dphysics 3 nvidia-cuda-toolkit 3 starjava-topcat 3 qtcharts-opensource-src 3 $ It's certainly not perfect; although I try to do deduplication, there are still some duplicates as you can see above (e.g. qt6-quick3dphysics is part of the qtbase-opensource-src transition). But it's a lot better than trying to read update_excuses.html directly. The number after the source package name is the number of additional source packages identified as part of the cluster. It will never be less than 3 - if you only have 3 packages in a group that have to migrate together, it's not significant and it's better to focus on packages in chronological order instead. I've been using find-proposed-cluster in anger for about a month now, and it's given me quicker insight into what's happening in -proposed that needs attention. Please kick the tires. Suggestions for improvement welcome. Enjoy, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer https://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org
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