Re: Packages webapp status

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 01:37:36AM -0500, Elliott Sales de Andrade wrote:
>  On Thu, 30 Jan 2020 at 08:03, Neal Gompa <ngompa13(a)gmail.com&gt;
> wrote:
>  >
>  > On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 6:40 AM Iñaki Ucar <iucar(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote:
>  > >
>  > > On Wed, 29 Jan 2020 at 23:23, Leigh Griffin <lgriffin(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
>  > > >
>  > > > I suspect that a bulk of our users are similar to you. Given that you are
> engaged on the thread (thank you!) what is your day to day needs? What features are part
> of your usage and interaction? What's missing or what would you like to see added?
> Your voice here can help represent that group and is most welcome.
>  > >
>  > > I'd say that if you manage to accommodate the more complicated
>  > > workflows, the basic one is covered. Beyond that, I really like the
>  > > table that is displayed in src.fp.o for every package, because in a
>  > > single glance you can tell which one is the stable version and the
>  > > version in testing for every release. I really like the links to Koji,
>  > > Bodhi... integrated just above the table. And I really really like the
>  > > Fedora Packages app, but it seems to be dead.
>  > >
>  > > In summary, package maintainance has many pieces (dist-git, builders,
>  > > update system, bugzilla, QA, CI...), and a "control panel" like
> Fedora
>  > > Packages is very useful, I think.
>  > >
>  >
>  > The Packages app was being rewritten by Miroslav Suchy:
>  > https://github.com/xsuchy/fedora-packages-ng
>  >
>  > I don't know if it's ready yet to replace the existing one, though.
>  >
>  
>  I don't know what the status of the replacement is, but when I go to 
Hopefully Miroslav can fill us in on that.

>  Packages, 50% of what I look for is missing and 50% is just wrong.
>  This is less than useless. Any prospective Fedora user won't even
>  bother installing it if they can't find out whether their favourite
>  application is available. We might as well just turn Packages off. 
Thats... much more harsh than I would agree with. I still use it and
find some of its information helpfull. 

kevin