Plugin idea: create ticket on successive errors

[majkinetor]

It would be good to have a plugin that records errors on packages, count them and after a threshold is reached it creates an issue on the Github/lab...

Only single active ticket should exist for any package

Plugin could remember package counts in json file (the same as used in streams). We would need to slightly change the stream impl to use key for it - i.e. put everything under streams key so that file could be used for other plugin statuses too. (breaks compatibility but acceptable since streams are still new), or use special stream for other stuff which is compatible with current system but semantics are bad for the eternity.

[AdmiringWorm]

There is one consideration that probably need to be taking into account if implementing this.

Sometimes packages fail only once or twice, due to a temporary error on the download location/website itself.

Issue should probably only be created if the same package have been failing multiple times.

[majkinetor]

Indeed, hence the:

and after a threshold is reached it creates an issue

You could configure such plugin this way:

Ticket  = @{
    ErrCount = 6
    # or ErrDays   = 7
    BodyTemplate = '...'
    ApiToken = '...'
}

This plugin would also need to git commit stuff for packages that are not updated so it will have to use settings of Git plugin.

[AdmiringWorm]

I somehow missed that part of the sentence.

Anyway, I do think this is a great idea and would most likely help make package maintenance a little easier (hopefully).