Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 10:40:00PM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: >> [...] >> I can see how you might have come to this conclusion, but rest assured. >> I do trust changelogs as a documentation of who-did-what. It was a >> question of us setting with a list of some 50 user-names and wanted to >> know who was active. >> We noticed that we could find the user-name in the emails to the >> commit logs, which solved our problem of mapping (user-)names to >> packages. So it was a question of what data I had available. > > ACK, I see, so this was more related to the "get rid of inactive alioth > accounts" than to "let's clean up Uploaders". > >> Nevertheless, it sounds like there is little interest in the mailing >> list scanner, so I will put that away for now. > > Oh no, it is interesting, I just tried to KISS :-) > Yes, I should probably been more clear on what we used it for. >> I am using dpkg's perl modules for parsing the changelog, so it is >> already pretty straight forward. The reason why it only checks the >> signature line is because it is a prototype. >> It already allows you to specify a regex instead of an email provided >> you invoke grep-dctrl yourself. However, it still only checks the >> signature line. I know how to fix it and can do it when I get about 30 >> minutes to do a bit of perl. > > In case you need a reference, the "minechangelogs" script (by Enrico > Zini) that we use in the NM process already does something like > that. I've never looked at the code, but you can find it here: > > svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/nm/trunk/nm-templates/minechangelogs > It does: exec ssh lintian.debian.org "~enrico/bin/minechangelogs $ARGS" I have to admit it is not the best reference I have seen so far, since I do not (to my knowledge) have ssh access to l.d.o. It is possible to fetch this from another location? > Hope this helps, > Cheers. > Thanks in advance, ~Niels
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