Re: Really cool responses! (Was: Summary of Debian Science BOF at DebConf)
On Sat, Oct 02, 2010 at 04:57:02PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> a couple of weeks ago, I tested and committed to the UDD Subversion repository
> a gatherer for the contents of debian/upstream-metadata.yaml files
> (<http://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamMetadata>). I am still very unexperienced
> with the UDD, so I feel very reluctant to activate the new table in the real
> UDD by myself.
Just tell me (or rather debian-qa list which hosts UDD discussion) if
there is something to test or if there are remaining questions.
> The umegaya (Upstream MEtadata GAthered with YAml) system can be used to
> distribute bibliographic information for our packages, without the need of
> parsing a BiBTex file. It is not meant to replace BiBTex files that we would
> supply within the package to our users for a direct as a reference in
> documents. Whether a .bib file would be the source of a .yaml file or the
> reverse is best decided by the maintainers on a case-by-case basis, although I
> guess that the choices will probably be influenced by the first convenience
> tools to appear.
Sounds quite reasonable.
> My primary goal when I invented the umegaya system was reduce the size of the
> tasks files, that have grown big since metadata used in the web sentinels has
> been included. With this metadata transferred, we can again have lists on
> comma-separated packages on folded lines, which allow to review the contents of
> a task within a single screen.
True and the effort is highly appreciated.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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