RFS: openguides -- A web application for managing a collaboratively-written city guide
Hello,
I am looking for sponsorship for a set of packages including openguides, a
wiki-based city guide package. The other packages are those dependencies
which are not already satisfied in unstable).
The packages are quite numerous so for this reason I am posting just a
short descriptions of most of them. They are all licenced under the dual
Artistic/GPL licences.
I would be interested in people wanting to sponsor some or more of these
packages. I believe Jonathan McDowell may be interested in sponsoring
some of them but because of the sheer number thought it would be best to
ask here as well. Besides the list below there I would to package
Plucene <http://search.cpan.org/~simon/Plucene-1.19/> as this is an
optional, recommended dependency of OpenGuides; however this requires an
additional 10 or so modules so those packages aren't quite ready yet.
If there are no objections, I will file ITPs for these packages soon.
I would be interested if anyone has further comments on the issues
surrounding packaging a large number of small modules like this.
First, the main feature:
Package: openguides
Description: A web application for managing a collaboratively-written city guide
The OpenGuides software provides the framework for a collaboratively-written
city guide. It is similar to a wiki but provides somewhat more structured
data storage allowing you to annotate wiki pages with information such as
category, location, and much more. It provides searching facilities
including "find me everything within a certain distance of this place".
Every page includes a link to a machine-readable (RDF) version of the page.
OpenGuides has a home page at http://openguides.org/
OpenGuides is built on top of CGI::Wiki, which deserves a full description
too:
Package: libcgi-wiki-perl
Description: A toolkit for building Wikis
Helps you develop Wikis quickly by taking care of the boring bits for
you. You will still need to write some code - this isn't an instant Wiki.
CGI::Wiki can be found at http://search.cpan.org/dist/CGI-Wiki/
Now just a brief list of the other perl modules which are required:
Package: libdbix-fulltextsearch-perl
Description: Indexing documents with MySQL as storage
URL: http://search.cpan.org/~tjmather/DBIx-FullTextSearch-0.73/
Package: libconfig-tiny-perl
Description: Read/Write .ini style files with as little code as possible
URL: http://search.cpan.org/~adamk/Config-Tiny-2.00/
Package: libvcs-lite-perl
Description: Minimal version control system
URL: http://search.cpan.org/~ivorw/VCS-Lite-0.05/
Package: libcgi-wiki-plugin-rss-modwiki-perl
Description: A CGI::Wiki plugin to output RecentChanges RSS
URL: http://search.cpan.org/~kake/CGI-Wiki-Plugin-RSS-ModWiki-0.06/
Package: liburi-find-delimited-perl
Description: Find URIs which may be wrapped in enclosing delimiters
URL: http://search.cpan.org/~kake/URI-Find-Delimited-0.02/
Package: libcgi-wiki-plugin-categoriser-perl
Description: Category management for CGI::Wiki
URL: http://search.cpan.org/~kake/CGI-Wiki-Plugin-Categoriser-0.02/
Package: libcgi-wiki-plugin-locator-uk-perl
Description: A CGI::Wiki plugin to manage UK location data
URL: http://search.cpan.org/~kake/CGI-Wiki-Plugin-Locator-UK-0.09/
Package: libcgi-wiki-plugin-rss-reader-perl
Description: retrieve RSS feeds for inclusion in CGI::Wiki nodes
URL: http://search.cpan.org/~emartin/CGI-Wiki-Plugin-RSS-Reader-1.4/
Package: libgeography-nationalgrid-perl
Description: Class for a point and to transform coordinate systems
URL: http://search.cpan.org/~pkent/Geography-NationalGrid-1.6/
Package: libtie-db-file-splithash-perl
Description: A wrapper around the DB_File Berkeley database system
URL: http://search.cpan.org/~snowhare/Tie-DB_File-SplitHash-1.01/
Package: libsearch-invertedindex-perl
Description: A manager for inverted index maps
URL: http://search.cpan.org/~snowhare/Search-InvertedIndex-1.14/
(NOTE: OpenGuides development is moving away from using this in favour
of Plucene, which I haven't had a chance to package yet, so it may not
be worth putting this into the Debian archive as I believe it is
essentially an abandoned project).
Package: libtie-filelrucache-perl
Description: A lightweight but robust filesystem based persistent LRU cache
URL: http://search.cpan.org/~snowhare/Tie-FileLRUCache-1.01/
Package: libcgi-wiki-plugin-diff-perl
Description: format differences between two CGI::Wiki pages
URL: http://search.cpan.org/~ivorw/CGI-Wiki-Plugin-Diff-0.07/
Package: libfile-spec-perl
Description: portably perform operations on file names
URL: http://search.cpan.org/~kwilliams/File-Spec-0.90/
Package: libclass-parmlist-perl
Description: Collection of routines for parameter lists for method calls
URL: http://search.cpan.org/~snowhare/Class-ParmList-1.03/
Package: libcgi-wiki-formatter-usemod-perl
Description: UseModWiki-style formatting for CGI::Wiki
URL: http://search.cpan.org/~kake/CGI-Wiki-Formatter-UseMod-0.16/
Package: libclass-namedparms-perl
Description: A lightweight named parameter handling system
URL: http://search.cpan.org/~snowhare/Class-NamedParms-1.04/
Package: liburi-find-perl
Description: Find URIs in arbitrary text
URL: http://search.cpan.org/~rosch/URI-Find-0.14/
All the packages are available for download, along with some extra
documentation, at
http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/debian/openguides/
Packages are signed by my GPG key 5178E2A5, which is signed by a handful
of Debian Developers.
Cheers,
Dominic.
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