Re: Input on package thermometer (Was ... long ago: package thermometer improvements)
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 11:18:29AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just notice that the discussion is quite aged (two years) but finally I
> found a quite easy mechanism to implement the GIS package thermometer for
> all Blends. If you run the script available under
>
> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=blends/website.git;a=blob;f=misc/sql/gis-thermometer.sh
>
> with the command line option 'debian-gis' on alioth you get all data
> needed for the Debian GIS package thermometer[1] (as well as the Ubuntu
> version - please tell me whether those Ubuntu releases might be
> sufficient or you prefer other releases listed as well).
>
> I attached a gzipped output of
>
> gis-thermometer.sh debian-gis
>
> to this mail to give you a quick overview about the data.
>
> What is left to do is some wrapper to turn this into a web page -
> perhaps in parallel to the existing tasks and bugs pages of the web
> sentinel. So I would write a Genshi template and a Python wrapper
> around the query to finalise this if you agree with this procedure.
>
Nice results thanks.
> The only thing that need to be adopted from Debian GIS team is the way
> you are specifying your not yet packaged target software. I have no
> idea in what way you do thie inside the GIS thermometer but I'd
> recommend to follow other Blends techniques. The best way would be to
> inject a packaging skeleton into VCS. This is parsed and injected into
> UDD and thus can be easily used inside the query. Finally it is a
> preparation for your intended goal to package the software. I checked
> that it takes about three minutes to fill in some skeleton debina/control,
> debian/changelog and debian/copyright (machine readable, only the first
> License field is parsed - no need for completing everything). If you
> do not have this three minutes per package I doubt that there will be
> any serious work done in the next year and so it can be easily droped
> from your todo list to do it at some point in time later. In case your
> agree to this prospective package in VCS method simply mentioning the
> binary package name inside the tasks file is sufficient to let all
> tools (inclusive the to be finished thermometer) sufficiently.
>
IMHO the list of package of interest could be easily and alternatively
maintained on the wiki, without adding more complications to people
already overloaded and overstressed :)
> Just let me know if you like this idea and I'll go on with the Genshi
> template to create Debian Blends thermometer (+ optional Ubuntu
> thermometer, probably even enhanced to "other derivatives" thermometer).
>
I personally like it
--
Francesco P. Lovergine
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