Heya, as anticipated yesterday on IRC, I've a new toy to present and I'm looking for comments, suggestions, ... and patches! ;) for it. Ladies and gentlemen: http://sources.debian.net/ My initial need was to have a stable link base to cross-reference results of static analysis tools to actual source code in the Debian archive, without having to reinvent the code browsing/highlighting wheel each time. E.g.: http://sources.debian.net/src/cowsay/3.03%2Bdfsg1-4/cowsay?hl=22:28&msg=22:Cowsay:See?%20Cowsay%20variables%20are%20declared%20here.#L22 in a single place. But it quickly turned into something that sounded useful as a more general tool, so I've grabbed the sources.d.n DNS entry. People thus far seem to like it: sources.d.n has already been integrated into codesearch.d.n, which will link back to sources.d.n (with graceful degradation if needed), as well as into the PTS, which has grown a new "browse source code" link. The code base is updated 4 times a day and currently follows stable, testing, unstable, and experimental. Also, disappeared versions are kept around for 14 days before being removed, to reduce the likelihood of dangling links from services that are updated less often (e.g. codesearch itself, which is updated weekly). If you've other ideas about where sources.d.n should be integrated, please shout. The code base is still young, and there are plenty of pending items to be worked on (see TODO file in the Git repo [1]). Feel free to mention additional issues here. [1]: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=qa/debsources.git;a=blob;f=TODO;hb=HEAD Acknowledgements ---------------- Matthieu Caneill, who is subscribed to this list, is the main developer of the web part of sources.d.n; the service wouldn't exist without him. Thanks a lot, Matthieu! Other people have contributed patches to integrate sources.d.n with various parts of the Debian infrastructure already: many thanks to Michael Stapelberg (for codesearch.d.n integration) and Paul Wise (for PTS integration). See [2] for a full list of contributors. [2]: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=qa/debsources.git;a=blob;f=AUTHORS;hb=HEAD Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . zack@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . . . o . . . o o Former Debian Project Leader . . @zack on identi.ca . . o o o . . . o . « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club »
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