unable to report a formula as broken

[ssbarnea]

The website seems nice and clean but it does not allow me to report a formula as broken and not even a link to a place where I can do that.

[zedtux]

What do you mean by reporting a formula as broken?

[ssbarnea]

As a brew user, sooner or later you will face a moment where "brew install foobar" either fails or succeeds installing a package that doesn't work (like giving a segmentation fault).

At this moment it seems that there is almost no documentation on how to report a broken formula (or cask) and the brewformulas.org seems like the right place to help users.

Ideally I would also add ability to upvote downvote formulas, but that would clearly be another ticket.

PS. I think that there is lot to learn from how ansible galaxy works: https://galaxy.ansible.com/explore#/

[zedtux]

Thank you @ssbarnea for the clarification, I can consider your request.

So how would you see your request in the app?

• A general link, always visible, pointing to the Homebrew github repository issues page
• A link per formula, pointing to the Homebrew github repository new issue page with pre define title (I think it's possible to do so)
• Something else?

[ssbarnea]

Indeed, a pre-populated new issue link would be very useful. Also it would be useful if we can display already existing tickets related to that formula.

[zedtux]

Oh, do you mean showing the open issues about a formula in the show page of the formula on brewformulas.org?

[zedtux]

Here is what I did in the new version of BrewFormulas:

This opens a new tab to the URL :