microsoft / microsoft/winget-pkgs
[New Feature]: Notify package submitters when their package is about to be removed
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Description
Description of the new feature/enhancement
There are some packages where the publisher only retains the newest copy, and wingetbot is either unable to update the manifest properly #107968 or the link is version specific #104960 . Notifying package submitters would allow them (by pinging them in the removal PR) to avoid total removal when just an update would be necessary.
Sites like wikipedia automate this similarly:
A user is notified their image is about to be removed since it is unused, and is given notice to either fix it or let it go.
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Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No files, tests, or entry points are identified. Start by reviewing the wingetbot problems in #107968 and #104960 and the package-removal PR workflow; define how submitters are identified and notified, and consider the work done when an agreed notification flow is implemented and tested.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Domain
- release
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100