Question about Debian and sourceforge
Dear James,
My name is Mike, and I am interested in setting up an interface between
debian and debian-sf[1]/gforge[2].
I would like your advice on the katie system, and how it could possibly
be integrated.
After the helpful and nice discussion on the #debian-devel irc
yesterday, I thought I would follow up with a mail to you and these
lists.
The current sourceforge file release system is clunky and based on
using php web pages. The savannah[3] system is based on ssh, and is
simpler.
I have been thinking about porting the savannah code back to debiansf,
but think there is a better way, a fully automated file release system.
The debian changelog, dsc and .changes file contains all the
information needed to release a package and store the dependancies.
For testing, my project on introspector.sf.net that I want to migrate
to use debian-sf/gforge on objectweb[4]. I have been using dupload to
post my packaged to the the sf server, and it works great.[5]
Then next logical step will be to setup a a debian backend that will
take this packages from the incoming directory, download them, test
them, and put them into the sourceforge database. I have just gotten
access to the gforge cvs, and would like to start experimenting with
setting up a katie system to download packages, test them, and then
post them to the gforge system. This will bring a great advantage to
debian developers in the future.
I hope you support this suggestion.
thanks,
mike
[1] http://www.nongnu.org/debian-sf/
debian source forge, a debian packaging of the sourceforge release
[2] http://gforge.org/
gforge, the next generation
[3] http://savannah.gnu.org/
another branch of the sourceforge code, run by gnu
[4] http://debian-sf.objectweb.org/
a installation of debiansf, supports object brokers
[5] http://introspector.sourceforge.net/debian/incoming/
the introspector incoming directory.
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James Michael DuPont
http://introspector.sourceforge.net/
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