Re: [GSoC] Reg Blends web sentinel
Hi Akshita,
On Sun, Mar 01, 2015 at 04:21:21PM +0530, Akshita Jha wrote:
> Thanks alot for your guidance. I have gone through the Blends documentation
> and found it very informative.
Thanks for your interest in Blends.
> Also, I have cloned the git repo (git://
> git.debian.org/git/blends/website.git) and created a local UDD instance on
> my machine according to the instructions given in
> https://wiki.debian.org/UltimateDebianDatabase/Hacking.
>
> I just have a few questions:
>
> There are three folders in the git repo - misc, webtools, www. The folder
> www contains all the Debian Pure Blends. Each Blend has its own index.html,
> which displays some statistics about that Blend, and contains some links.
> Is this what you meant by recreating Blends web sentinel pages ?
Well, these are static entry pages for each Blend. The statistics
graphs are produced by the teammetrics project (some other GSoC project
from 2011). The GSoC work from this year is not about these things.
> Also, I was trying to run tasks.py in the webtools folder. It gives me an
> error. Is this the issue you mentioned about in your last email? 'tasks.py'
> creates the tasks pages of a Blend, right?
Yes. It is an encoding issue. I described this in
https://lists.debian.org/debian-blends/2014/08/msg00050.html
and strangely it does not happen under current Debian stable (so
fortunately blends.debian.org runs nicely). But on a recent testing
system I did not yet solved the issue. It also happens for bugs_udd.py
which is intended to replace bugs.py. I have tracked down the issue on
bugs_udd.py to some maintainer names with non ASCII characters in their
names.
I admit my experiences in Python with language encoding issues is
limited so most probably there are way better solutions than I tried.
> It would be great if you could help me in figuring out what to do next.
If you could get bugs_udd.py working this would be very great help. The
final goal is to rewrite tasks.py to use UDD exclusively instead of
parsing tasks files. I have also some other ideas how the tasks pages
could be enhanced even more and this rewrite + enhancement is the topic
of the GSoC project.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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