Re: reportbug: support for mentors.debian.org pseudo package

[Arno Töll <debian@toell.net>]

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Hello Michael,

On 30.09.2011 21:57, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> Then let's get mentors officialized to tear down this barrier!

This is not something I or you or anyone else could push forward right
now here. This is something which needs consensus among Debian
Developers and a DPL accepting that. And, finally some DDs who would
need to be delegated there.

Feel free to open a thread on debian-devel and/or get our beloved DPL's
opinion on that matter. Eventually you should find two developers first
which would agree with you pushing things forward here.

> In my opinion a term like "contributors" would be much more
> empowering.  It would better convey the fact that this is as a place
> for new contributors to work together, learn, evolve, and grow within
> the project. 

We are all contributors. Those who need the mentors.debian.net and those
who don't. There is still room for improvements left.

> I agree, I chose this approach since it's possible to implement right
> now; although it's certainly fragile (certain changes to the mentors
> pages will break the scraping algorithms).  A soap based interface
> would be wonderful!

In fact, I noticed there is already a SOAP interface. Apparently nobody
used it since 2+ years though, so it may be working or not, but it seems
ok, generally speaking:

>>> import SOAPpy
>>> server = SOAPpy.SOAPProxy("http://mentors.debian.net/soap.wsdl";)
>>> server.config.dumpSOAPIn = 1
>>> server.package(name='lighttpd',version='1.4.29-1')
*** Incoming SOAP ******************************************************
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema-instance";
xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/";>
<SOAP-ENV:Body>
	<packageResponse>
		<packageResult type="tns:stringArray">
		<string xsi:type="xs:string">lighttpd</string>
		<string xsi:type="xs:string">Arno Töll &lt;debian@toell.net&gt;</string>
		<string xsi:type="xs:string">lighttpd   - fast webserver with minimal
memory footprint
...
</string>
	<string xsi:type="xs:string">0</string>
	<string xsi:type="xs:string">1.4.29-1</string>
	<string xsi:type="xs:string">httpd</string>
	<string xsi:type="xs:string">unstable</string>
	<string xsi:type="xs:string">main</string>
	<string xsi:type="xs:string">optional</string>
	<string xsi:type="xs:string">629638</string>
	<string xsi:type="xs:string">2011-09-30 15:13:18.862216</string>
		</packageResult>
	</packageResponse>
</SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
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- -- 
with kind regards,
Arno Töll
IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC
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