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Include date/time for latest scan for tags

Open jmh530 opened this issue 7 months ago • 5 comments

There is a recent dub issue mentioning that the dub registry had not updated that dub itself was a newer version (it has since been updated, so the issue should be closed). https://github.com/dlang/dub/issues/2721

Nevertheless, it feels like it can take a few days from when a package is tagged to when the new tag shows up in code.dlang.org. If you're just a contributor and not the owner of the repository, you may just have to wait those couple of days for the update to occur on its own. This is especially frustrating if you have another project that depends on the tag being available to build upon (and the recommendation from the code.dlang.org documentation is not to rely on a branch for a dependency).

One thing that might make things a little more transparent is providing some kind of date/time information for the last time the package was scanned for new tags. If the scan happens weekly (or whenever), then at least seeing when the last scan occurred can make it feel more deterministic.

This might be less of an issue if the packages are scanned for new tags more frequently. It might make sense to have some kind of prioritization for packages that are downloaded more frequently.

jmh530 avatar Dec 04 '23 21:12 jmh530