There are many moments in every package maintainers life when she wishes one
or another thing would be done automatically for her. What packages I
maintain have a newer version available that is not packaged yet?
What packages have identified common QA issues? What packages could be
stabilized if following the 30-day guideline? And so on.
If such questions plague you often to save your time, this is the project to
help with!

Many such automated or semi-automated software does exist, but they are
currently dispersed across the Interweb in various different locations,
with typically no good connection between packages and the maintainer
looking at the information. GPNL, tinderbox rindex/dindex reports,
gentoo-bumpchecker, manual repoman/pcheck runs, and so on.

Project codenamed "Grumpy" is intended as a Gentoo Linux project to aggregate
all these tools functionality into one centralized website and add more
such maintainer time saving functionality into a coherent whole:
grumpy maintainer helper - because it's better to have a website be grumpy
than a maintainer.
A one stop shop for finding out what options of work you, as a package
maintainer, have at that moment in regards to your various package
maintainerships.


Perhaps some examples of what such a website could entail in itself (but
these are merely examples):

* Ability to tell it what packages you maintainer or are interested in based
on a listing of herds or maintainers, to be able to primarily view reports
about packages of main interest.
* Automated version tracking between Gentoo stable tree, testing tree,
overlays and upstream releases. Reports on what version bumps or stable
requests could be done.
* Various up to date QA reports of packages maintained.
* High-level overview of all the tasks possible thanks to the centralization.


Suggested course of action after initial discussion is of course for a team
of interested developers/contributors rally together and start researching
the options for implementations.