microsoft / microsoft/winget-pkgs

A way to find out duplicate Moniker

Open
#16,576 5 comments 3 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

Nobody has claimed this yet.

Area-Validation-Pipeline Issue-Feature
Dominant language
No language data
Stars
11.1k
Forks
9.7k
Avg merge
1h 32m
Merged PRs (30d)
376

Description

Description of the new feature/enhancement

Some applications for example SlackTechnologies/SlackBeta and SlackTechnologies/Slack have same Moniker, which could cause problems. Moniker is a way to install a specific application without typing its full id, hence a convenient feature, but that also means that each application should have it's own unique Moniker but here two different applications have same one. I think there should be a way to automatically find out applications with same Moniker.

Proposed technical implementation details (optional)

Index .yaml files in this repository to find out if there are any matching cases for Moniker.

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Review the .yaml manifest files in the winget-pkgs repository, focusing on their Moniker fields and the SlackTechnologies/Slack and SlackBeta examples. Determine how duplicate Moniker values can be identified across manifests. Done means the repository has a way to automatically find and report applications sharing a Moniker.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
yaml
Domain
cli
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.