[Nix-dev] Improving security updates

[Bjørn Forsman]

On 10 April 2015 at 23:35, Jonathan Glines <auntieneo at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I think it would be useful to have a "bump bot" for nixpkgs that could
> scan meta data and catalog exactly which packages are out of date. The
> bot would pull data from multiple sources (package mirrors, other
> distros, security feeds) to warn about major version bumps and
> security advisories. Maintainers could then use output from the bot to
> see at a glance which of their packages are out of date. Maybe even
> with a web interface with graphs and charts to compare against other
> Linux distros and upstream. Distrowatch already does something similar
> for select few important packages.

Sounds very much like the Nixpkgs Monitor :-)

http://monitor.nixos.org/

- Bjørn