Heads up; F22 will require applications to ship appdata to be listed in software center

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 04:53:47PM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Jan 2014 15:26:24 -0800
> Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> I think ideally any process around this should have at least two parts: 
> 
> a) an automated/scriptable part. 
> 
> In this part the script uses cold hard facts to look for possible
> packages that are unloved or package maintainers that are not active. 
> There's tons of data we have now with fedmsg. Sadly, we don't have
> bugzilla in fedmsg, but we could scrape it directly. 
> it generates a list that feeds to the next part. 
> 
> b) The generated list is examined by humans and action taken. 
> 
> Some things that are the list will be false positives. Try and adjust
> the script to not generate them. 
> 
> As a bonus, the script could also possibly try and figure out components
> that 'need help'...ie, lots of unanswered bugs or something. 
Even a simple list of packages ordered by the time from last
non-mass-rebuild release multiplied by the number of currently open
bugs would be quite useful. Packages with bug-years above 50 or so
would be good candidates for inspection.

> If someone wants to write up a concrete proposal around this, I think
> that would be great. 
+1

Zbyszek