[Soc-coordination] Possible GSoC idea: (Near) real-time updates of (UDD) bug view

[Niels Thykier]

At the moment, UDD runs an update script about once every 3 hours (and a
slightly more extensive run once a day)[1].  Optimally, we would have no
delay at all - there are IRC bots that post the bugs within a minute or
two of them being opened or closed[1].

It does not have to be UDD's bug view; if you can create a live updated
bug view with good filtering on top of the Debian BTS that would be fine
with me as well.  As long as the result is good for finding and
squashing RC bugs or finding packages that are missing an unblock[2].

To get all the information in near real time (e.g the "Affects Wheezy"
and "Affects sid" information), I guess that the BTS side /may/ need
changes as well.


I admit the idea is not well fleshed out or researched, so it may need a
bit of work to mold it into a proper GSoC.  It would also need mentors
that are actually familiar with UDD or/and the BTS on a development
basis (my experience is limted to "user").

~Niels

[1] http://udd.debian.org/crontabs.txt

The "extensive" part appears to just be "bugs-archive".  Doing that once
per day should be fine (bugs are not archived faster than that anyway).

[2] UDD has a decent view of this here:

http://udd.debian.org/bugs.cgi?release=wheezy_not_sid&merged=ign&unblock-hint=ign&fnewerval=7&rc=1&sortby=id&sorto=asc&chints=1&ctags=1&cdeferred=1&crttags=1