Re: watch-wizard
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 03:20:39PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Bart Martens wrote:
>
> > Do you mean "keep it" as in "keep doing thousands of pointless http/ftp hits on
> > a regular basis just for a few hundred good uscan results" ? Or do you mean
> > "keep it" as in "keep it for manual use to write watch files" ?
>
> When you put it like that, running it on a regular basis doesn't sound good.
OK we seem to agree to take watch-wizard out of watch-worker.
>
> I'd suggest:
>
> Improve it a bit (zipre for eg)
Sounds like a useful idea.
>
> Add it to devscripts.
Sounds like a useful idea.
>
> Run it on new copyright files/homepages and if it produces a good
> watch file then save the result. If not drop the result and don't
> check this package again until the copyright file is updated.
Quite some work while the errors/usable ratio would still be high.
> Watch
> files saved as a result of this should be overridden by human-written
> watch files from packages and also from watch file contributors.
That would be the easy part. :-)
>
> Use it for generating a template for user-contributed watch files.
Sounds like a useful idea.
Regards,
Bart Martens
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