pkg-fallout reports

[Danilo G. Baio]

On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 01:37:19PM +0200, Stefan Esser wrote:
> Am 14.08.20 um 00:54 schrieb Danilo G. Baio:
> > Hi.
> > 
> > Just sharing this simple project that gathers freebsd-pkg-fallout [1]
> > reports into a database for easy filtering:
> > 
> > https://portsfallout.com/fallout
> > 
> > 
> > I hope it's useful for port maintainers.
> 
> Hi Danilo,
> 
> very useful indeed!
> 
> One thing I noticed: The filtering by maintainer name performs
> a sub-string match of the argument, which due to many very short
> account names leads to "false positive" matches.
> 
> How about a different match algorithm:
> 
> 1) If argument has no domain part then
> 
> 1.a) attach "@freebsd.org" and check for identity (full length
>      comparison)
> 
> 1.b) compare argument with name part of maintainer mail address
>      (sans domain part)
> 
> 2) Compare argument with domain with implied anchor on first
>    characters
> 
> 3) Sub-string search as currently done
> 
> Stop whenever a step returns a non-empty result.
> 
> This would allow committers to match by their login name and it
> should give reasonable results for external maintainers, too.
> 
> Is it possible to suppress or mark results that correspond to
> ports that have been fixed or failed only spuriously?
> (This might e.g. be implemented if it was known when another
> round of package builds have been completed for the architecture
> and release that caused a report and the failure has not been
> reported again.)


Hi Stefan.

Thanks for the tips.

I'll improve this search form.

And about the build fix part, there is nothing yet to mark if some issue
was fixed.

-- 
Danilo G. Baio (dbaio)
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