Re: Would a Guix QA page be helpful?

[Léo Le Bouter]

On Sat, 2021-02-06 at 20:20 +0000, Christopher Baines wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> The Guix Data Service has been getting better at finding problems,
> but
> getting that data requires knowing it exists, and where to find it,
> and
> clicking all the relevant links.
> 
> I've been wondering if it would be good to have a QA page that just
> summarises and links to this information, things like:
> 
>  - Broken packages
>  - Broken system tests
>  - Broken fixed output package derivations
>  - Lint warnings
>  - ...
> 
> While I'd really like to get to a place where less packages and
> system
> tests are unintentionally broken, and less lint warnings are
> unintentionally introduced, at the moment, there are plenty of these
> problems. There's also things like the broken package sources, where
> there will probably always be new breakages being introduced.
> 
> Given the Guix Data Service can look at what's changed within a time
> period on a branch, recent breakages could also be displayed.
> 
> This could potentially sit at qa.guix.gnu.org.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 

Yes please!

> Thanks,

Thank *you* for working on this!

> 
> Chris

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