On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 03:02:40PM +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 31.03.2015, 12:34 +0200 schrieb Jeroen Dekkers: > > > Dropping packages that need help from the help-wanted list doesn't > > solve any problem, it only hides problems and makes it even less > > likely that packages that need help get help. And removing from > > testing isn't an option for packages for which no alternative exists > > such as grub. > > I see that this won't help, but I have two other suggestions that I hope > are not too far-fetched but would IMHO help to improve the usefullness > of this list: > > 1) Provide actual hyperlinks to the bugs in which help is requested -- > in place, in this list, right next to the package name and bug number.
So in the source code there is allready a variable which contains the bugreportnumber, BRN. And the requested / proposed improvement would be printing an extraline which contains http://bugs.debian.org/BRN > Merely providing bug numbers doesn't help very much and means a lot of > copy&pasting for a potential contributor. At the end of the list the > link to https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested is given, but > following that means you have to go through the entire list again to > find your package of interest. Okay, as the mantra says: Patches welcome The quest begins Header of the original e-mail contains: X-Mailer: maintainers-needed.pl A websearch on that file brought me to https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=562109 Need to dig deeper Found http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/qa/trunk/data/wnpp/maintainers-needed.pl?view=markup wget -O maintainers-needed.download 'http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/qa/trunk/data/wnpp/maintainers-needed.pl?revision=2956&view=co' cp maintainers-needed.download maintainers-needed.pl (The actual coding work) Ta ta the patch: --- maintainers-needed.download 2015-04-19 14:52:59.132447756 +0200 +++ maintainers-needed.pl 2015-04-19 15:21:59.792408917 +0200 @@ -362,6 +362,8 @@ if (my $p = $popcon{"p:$pkg"}) { print NFM fmt("Installations reported by Popcon: $p", 72, " "x5), "\n"; } + print NFM + fmt("Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/"; . $pkginfo{$pkg}{id}, 72, " "x5), "\n"; } } @wnpp people: please review the above patch > 2) Maybe it could be possible to tag the bugs with some keywords which > indicate the type of support that is requested. > > >From the mere bug list I cannot see if the package in question needs > help with bug triaging, porting issues, documentation, l10n/i18n, > general packaging or whatever. Probably contributors are not going to > read through several dozen bug reports to get an idea of *what* they > could actually do to help in the first place. > > Such keywords could get implemented by means of user-tags and the tags > get added to the WNPP list right next to the bug number. Patches welcome wget -O maintainers-needed.download 'http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/qa/trunk/data/wnpp/maintainers-needed.pl?view=co' cp -p maintainers-needed.download maintainers-needed.pl chmod a+x maintainers-needed.pl ./maintainers-needed.pl # see that it is working # indeed no special privelegde required $EDITOR maintainers-needed.pl # the actual coding work ./maintainers-needed.pl # see that it is working # indeed no special privelegde required diff -u maintainers-needed.download maintainers-needed.pl > wnppusertags.patch # e-mail the patch to w...@debian.org > As an example, this way, contributors could see at first glance that > e.g. package "munin" requests assistance for "bug-traging" and > "patch-forwarding" in #655889. Visiting http://bugs.debian.org/655889 didn't reveal any usertags yet to me. > Cheers, > Fabian Thanks for sharing the idea. Groeten Geert Stappers -- Leven en laten leven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150419134803.gd23...@gpm.stappers.nl
