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[Julian Edwards <julian.edwards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 16 June 2011 10:35:04 Bryce Harrington wrote:
> Sorry, yeah I've been aware of the effort but the elevator pitch seemed
> geared towards OEMs so I never really took a good look at it until
> lifeless showed it.
> 
> I'm mindful of Jono's point about feedback at the tail end of a LEP can
> do more harm than good...

Heh.  We've actually had good feedback all the way through the development 
cycle from various OEM, Linaro and Ubuntu guys.

> Fair enough.  I'm sharing them more for you to suck useful ideas out of
> more than anything else.  I suspect both GNOME and X guys are pretty set
> on our own reports.  But the functionality in them might be of some more
> general interest.

Absolutely, thanks for pointing them out.

> Not quite that elaborate, it just indicates difference vs. debian and
> difference vs. upstream.  So, green if everything's in sync with both
> upstream and debian, red if it's not tracking either upstream or debian,
> and an intermediate color if it's something in between.  So, if you
> ignore upstream, a simplified version of this might go something like:
> 
> * Given a version scheme A.B.C-X[ubuntuY] and two versions of a package
> 
>   1.  Color green if derived distro's package has same or greater A, B,
>       C, X numbers.
>   2.  Color yellow if derived distro has a lower X value
>   3.  Color red if derived distro has lower A, A.B, or A.B.C values

As per my previous email, do the filtering options and other pages get 
anywhere close to useful?