microsoft / microsoft/winget-pkgs
[New Feature]: Reserve top known monikers
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Description
Description of the new feature/enhancement
Several packages have well known monikers in other package managers.
This feature would check a list of monikers for packages when they are submitted.
The list should include information about the known packages in other repositories that aren't yet supported (.zip and standalone / portable executables) in the Windows Package Manager.
When a PR is submitted containing one of these monikers (for the first time), a check would be performed to make sure the package identifier is correct, and the association would be updated in the list.
Future PRs for this package would not be flagged for review, and the PR validation process would continue as usual.
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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
Start by tracing the Windows Package Manager PR validation process for package submissions and reviewing how package identifiers are checked. Define the known-moniker list and its association updates, then verify that first-time matches are reviewed while later PRs continue through normal validation.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100