Re: [eclipse.org-architecture-council] Cleaning up Eclipse Marketplace S

[Lars Vogel <lars.vogel@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ed,

not sure if that was already discussed with the foundation, but I
think that would be a good candidate for the FEEP project.

What do others think?

Best regards, Lars

On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 9:28 AM, Ed Merks <ed.merks@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yes, I opened https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=509929 and have
> a rough prototype for doing such checking automatically.   The checks
> include loading the repo, ensuring that the IUs really exist in that repo,
> and trying to do a resolution against each version of Eclipse (ensuring that
> the IUs will really install into that version of Eclipse).  But I've been
> busy since then and have not had time to progress further on it...  And I'm
> concerned that there is not enough resource on the foundation side of things
> to actually follow up on any work I do in this regard...  My desire was to
> add a page to the installer where users could choose additional
> marketplace-based functionality to install in their IDE, but that's a lot of
> work as well, and I'm not keen to provide such a feature when the quality of
> what's listed in so poor...
>
>
> On 10.07.2017 16:43, Mikaël Barbero wrote:
>
> If think that Ed Merks already proposed something to identify such bad
> entries (as a side effect of getting info about p2 IUs of all marketplace
> entries).
>
> Ed, do you confirm? It's something that run on a regular basis, right?
>
> Le 10 juil. 2017 à 10:40, Mickael Istria <mistria@xxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 4:35 PM, Mikaël Barbero
> <mikael.barbero@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> My understanding is that this process only applies to bad citizens who
>> have marketplace entries with non working p2 repos.
>
>
> Ok, fine then.
> Is there already something in place to automatically list erroneous p2
> repos? Or can we simply check the entry download stats to figure out which
> ones to drop, so it's only a database query to run or something like that?
>
> --
> Mickael Istria
> Eclipse IDE developer, at Red Hat Developers community
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