Re: Friendly reminder: the Vcs-Browser field is now official

[Michael Koch <konqueror@gmx.de>]

On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 02:05:37PM +0530, Varun Hiremath wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> On Tue, 30 Oct, 2007 at 08:47:03AM +0100, Michael Koch wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 01:03:58PM +0530, Varun Hiremath wrote:
> > > Do you know about svnbuildstat.d.o? Look at these pages:
> > > 
> > > http://svnbuildstat.debian.net/packages/list/17
> > > http://svnbuildstat.debian.net/packages/list/konqueror@gmx.de
> > 
> > Yes, I saw that before. Problem is that this still needs a pro-active
> > person to look at this. By an automatic way I meant that a mail gets set
> > to e.g. pkg-java-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org. And this mail gets
> > sent weekly or so.
> 
> I understand that the interface is not very good. I had written a
> small python script (to do something similar) for the packages that I
> maintain at code.google.com. It creates a list of updated packages in
> SVN which need to be uploaded to Debian.
> 
> http://code.google.com/p/bollin/wiki/Updates
> 
> We can do something similar for pkg-java svn also. And may be we can
> modify the script to generate a html page instead of wiki and we can
> put it somewhere on the pkg-java svn and also mail it to the list once
> a week.

This looks really promissing. We should use that as a base.


Cheers,
Michael