On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 3:48 PM Clement Verna cverna@fedoraproject.org wrote:
On Fri, Oct 25, 2019, 21:42 Randy Barlow bowlofeggs@fedoraproject.org wrote:
On Fri, 2019-10-25 at 14:53 -0400, Neal Gompa wrote:
It's not a bad feature to have in fedpkg, but it fundamentally does not help *other people* discover what we have in the distribution.
Yeah I've discussed this a bit with some people, and I agree. Fedora *users* might use the packages app to find out the same info that packagers want to find out.
However, I think that even though users and packagers are coming to this app for the same purpose, only one of those purposes maps to the CPE team's mission statement: the packager's. If you are a packager, you *need* to know what versions are where at a glance, especially when dealing with something high priority like a CVE.
That's not to say that the end-user story isn't a valuable use case, but our team is overburdened and we need to drop most of what we do right now, and we have to be specific about what our purpose is. This means dropping some valuable use cases.
https://pkgs.org/ might be a good replacement for that. Does anybody have used or is using this website ? Any feedback on it ?
Some of the searching is a little awkward. It does let you see stuff across distributions, but a lot of Fedora-specific information isn't present.
Unfortunately, improving pkgs.org is impossible as the author is hard to get ahold of and the software is not FOSS.