On Sun, May 03, 2015 at 02:50:17PM +0200, Iustin Pop wrote: > Resurrecting this year-old thread. I guess the patch tracker is still > down, right? It is, yes. > Browsing a few random packages seems to work correctly, although > without an extensive test suite I don't know how well the code works > for various packaging types. [...] > PS: Long-term, the current codebase needs some redoing - e.g. it uses > cheetah as templating engine, and that's not available under Python 3, > etc. I very much agree. This is why, from an idea coming from Lucas, I've included in the scope of the upcoming GSoC work on Debsources [1] the following: 2) a "patch tracker" web app to publish details about the source code differences that Debian packages carry with respect to upstream releases of the same software. [...] implement on top of Debsources a new web app, similar to the (now defunct) patch tracker [1]: https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2015/Projects/Debsources%20as%20a%20Platform From an ecosystem point of view, Debsources already have both packed and unpackages source packages, updated daily via push. On top of it adding a tiny web skin that presents the patches is not much of a work --- in comparison with the general infrastructure overhead of having a source mirror, unpackaging it, etc etc. This is why I'm interested in giving a try to recasting the old patch-tracker.d.o on top of sources.d.n (to that end I've temporarily booked patches.d.n), rather than deploying them as separate services. OTOH, the patch-tracker.d.o code base already exists, and Debsources is not yet a *.d.o service (mostly due to my lack of energy in doing the migration, nothing else). So YMMV on what is the best course of action for having back a web app exposing Debian patches w.r.t. upstream. In terms of technologies, Debsources is both Python 2 and 3 (although currently still deployed on Python 2), and Flask based. If you, or anyone else, is motivated more on working on these technologies than in modernizing the old patch-tracker.d.o code base, please come and talk to me. Having competition in the area wouldn't be necessarily bad either. In particular, it might motivate in implementing a generic patch parser in Python (supporting the various kind of packages), to be included in python-debian. Cheers. [ thanks to pabs for pointing me to this thread ] -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . zack@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . . . o . . . o o Former Debian Project Leader . . @zack on identi.ca . . o o o . . . o . « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club »
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