Bug#582038: qa.debian.org: [PTS] Please link to UbuntuDiff
On 18/05/2010 13:46, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
>
> UbuntuDiff does 3 things:
… for now. It aims to be a proof of concept, not a final product. I'll add
new feature to UbuntuDiff if people show some interest. I won't lose my
time if it's to be used by 3 persons.
> A) aggregate data about a set of packages selected by grep-dctrl
"grep-dctrl" is not important here. Another "query interface" could be
provided.
> C) extract the changelog from the diff
> => that's the main point we are interested in
>
> While I agree that (C) is a nice feature, it could go much further,
> providing direct links to the patches in debian/patches, extracting
> their description, etc. That's similar to what patch-tracker.debian.org
> aims at doing. The problem is that we need a good script that parses the
> diff and extracts the useful information.
> That script could be used on patch-tracker.debian.org and patches.u.c.
>
I think that extracting patches from a debdiff is doable and not
necessarily complicated. (I don't know for their description). It requires
only "free time" :) But, that's planned. Did you actually read my last
email? It says:
>
> I also have in mind to add¹ some features like: a
> simple patch viewer, list of packages in Ubuntu and
> not in Debian, etc…
>
> ¹: Any help is welcome if you {want to speed up the process,
> are interested}.
or I misunderstood your mail and shoud I take that for "I want to help"?
Besides, each package listed in [1] has its own file in [2] which simply
contains a div (whose "id" is the source pacakge) and can be used it in
another web page.
[1] http://ubuntudiff.debian.net/packages/list.txt
[2] http://ubuntudiff.debian.net/packages/${source_package}.html
maddie¹ is simple to use and extracting those html pages is as simple as
running it with the option "-multi". There is no need for any
configuration. You can put it in a cronjob and run it on qa.d.o if you
have an idea about how to integrate those html bits.
> Now, if we stuck to the changelog, it would be better to provide it as a
> box that appears when the mouse cursor is over the Ubuntu patch (using
> some cool javascript).
IMHO, that's a bad idea. Sometimes[1], the text has more than 30 lines. I
fail to see how you would display that in a "useful" way. But, if you want
to implement that, it would take 3 lines of JavaScript.
[1] http://ubuntudiff.debian.net/x/package/compiz
> You don't really need a separate service for that.
I think that you're wrong here. Having that script running on as a
separate service allows me to develop it while having my hands completely
free. Once someone finds a brillant idea how to integrate it, the service
will be stopped. My goal is not to provide a new service, but a new
information/tool for maintainers.
¹: the script that generates all what's on ubuntudiff
Regards,
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