GSoC 2019 [Collect build statistics]

[Mojca Miklavec]

Dear Arjun,

Just quickly (I'm online for a very short time) I'm listing some of
the potential next steps (in no particular order), I hope that Umesh
will also comment on it:

(1) It would probably be time for a thorough code review. It's a bit
tricky to do code reviews on your personal repository. What we could
do (I would be grateful if someone from the infrastructure team could
help a bit) is create a new empty temporary repository inside the
MacPorts organisation (but without subscribing everyone with commit
access), maybe with an initial commit, and then let you make a pull
request to that one, while we would do code review until the code is
in "perfect shape".

(2) You made a simple PR last time to fix portindex2json for a more
reasonable output of categories. Would you be willing for a tiny bit
more difficult task and try to improve the output for maintainers as
well? We would want a list of all maintainers with two optional keys
for each (email &  github handle) plus a boolean value to tell whether
the port is under openmaintainer policy.

(3) The author of portindex2json asked if we could generate the json
file on our infrastructure. Maybe you could explore how our buildbot
infrastructure works and create a PR or two to allow automatically
generating json output along with PortIndex on our buildbot. Others
might be able to help with more information if I'm offline. (I left a
tiny bit of info last time.)

(4) Umesh might point you to his past attempt to create such an
application. You could review how it was done and try to start working
on accepting installation statistics.

(5) Think about how to keep the build logs up to date.

Mojca