Package applicability in NuGet package manager - Search & Update by TFM

[anangaur]

Status: Reviewing

The specification is available here:
Package applicability in NuGet package manager UI

The prerequisite for this issue is NuGet/NuGetGallery#3098. The implementation will start server side.

Client side discussions should happen on this issue.

This issue covers,

• PM UI applicability.
• add package applicability.
• list package --outdated applicability. See linked issues.

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[maartenba]

Just some random thoughts having had this thing in a mind background thread.

A first question would be: will this be a server-side or client-side thing? Or, as I would expect, both sides?

Package metadata does not contain the relevant info required to make a decision whether to include/exclude a result, so this should be based on telemetry. Ideally, this telemetry is something that can be collected by all NuGet clients, e.g. NuGet.exe, dotnet.exe, VS, Rider, Paket, ...

Ideally the format of this telemetry is a protocol extension (given this client-side SearchContext, fetch me my results!) where every client can build such a search context and contribute data as it sees fit (e.g. project type, target framework, ...)

The server can then use this context (ideally with a well-known decision tree?) and gather results that best match the query and search context.

And then of course the other one to consider: privacy. What info can be legally shipped to the server to come up with a better result?

[maartenba]

With the spec now announced: see previous comment :-)

[maartenba]

(or: what is the Server-Side spec for this?)

[karann-msft]

@maartenba this spec is focused on the end-user experience. Once we are close to finalizing that, we'll start a discussion around the implementation details.

[maartenba]

Thanks! Looking forward to seeing the technical spec later on.

[anangaur]

@karann-msft there are some asks on having the framework information on gallery too. Can you include that in your spec? If not, create a sibling spec that takes care of the gallery changes and search improvements both on the gallery and on VS UI.