Re: ara and anla at debian.net|org
On 14-10-2006, George Danchev <danchev@spnet.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> As most of you know there is a web interface to ara [1] and edos-debcheck [2]
> (both packages are in Debian). These are great tools for package searching
> and problem diagnostics wrt QA of the packages, and I have received several
> messages from various people like "I am considering to submit a bug against
> packages.debian.org, asking them to replace the search of packages.debian.org
> by ara" ;-)
>
> This of course is great, but I have some questions which answers have
> probably been discussed during the meeting of a group of DDs with the
> EDOS-project people.
>
> 1) What version of ara runs at ara.edos-project.org ? I suspect it is some
> sort of enhanced version of svn.debian.org/svn/ara/branches/1.1.0 ? Currently
> 1.1.0 branch as found in svn does not compile, so I suspect there are some
> changes which has been applied to that tree. If there is anyone in close
> contact with EDOS people please ask them to send us the changes and probably
> to help merging bits from their 1.1.0 branch to the current ara's trunk.
>
> 2) Is there any enhancements to edos-debcheck to run at [2] ?
>
Cannot answer both of this question.
> 3) Should we ask for ara.debian.net (or .org) and anla.debian.net (or .org) ?
> I guess that running them in parallel to packages.debian.org would benefit
> much more users and reveal is a complete transition is needed and/or
> possible. This will also show what needs to be done in the future. I can
> imagine this could be a great help to QA and RM folks.
>
As i told you in a private mail, i think it should be good thing. But i
don't know how to do it (for registering debian.net names). I also think
it is of great help for people (in general) ;-)
Regards,
Sylvain Le Gall
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