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Hi, |
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I would like to propose a gsoc idea that is actually not really a single |
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project but much more a goal that will need to work on a few projects. |
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Mart Raudsepp (leio) wrote about speed up maintenance and other Gentoo |
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work[1] in the gentoo-dev and some ideas came out. I think it could be |
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very interesting for Gentoo to have them implemented. Dev work is the |
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very beginning of the distro and having it done more quickly and |
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automatically will be better for Gentoo. |
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Some of the ideas which came out are probably not very difficult to |
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implement (cron scripts) like automated version bump bugs[2] and |
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automated stabilization bugs[3]. |
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The first one will be a service monitoring ftp servers and notifies |
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maintainers when a bump is available. Looks like Debian is already doing |
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it so it could be not to complicated to do. |
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The second one will be a more basic script which will check when an |
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ebuild is ready to be stabilized like already does this rss feed |
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http://gentoo.petteriraty.eu/stable.rss. |
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Other ideas which are probably not so "programming" things but still |
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interesting like creating a dev-wiki wich will improve knowledge |
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management[4] (big problem in the gentoo dev world i think). But can |
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implementing a wiki be in a gsoc ? Don't think so. |
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I've read they are plenty of scripts some dev are using like metagen to |
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generate metadata.xml. Probably improving these scripts and adding them |
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to app-portage/gentoolkit-dev could be interesting. |
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I thought about this idea when thinking about the ebuild generator. The |
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ebuild generator will surely be a very good project to enhance my python |
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and gui skills but i'm really not sure devs will use it and so not sure |
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it worth the time working on it. |
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However, I don't think the two first services are enough for a 3 months |
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work but I really think this idea could help. But I need more stuff to |
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make it a real proposal. |
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May I have your opinion about this idea and may be some hints about work |
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that could be done to achieve this goal ? |
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Thanks, |
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Mounir Lamouri (volkmar) |
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[1] |
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http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_9e9ef9b20160fe08cc1f90636b69b5ee.xml |
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[2] |
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http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_cae4109ecb7bed4e7060aabf7da56b84.xml |
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[3] |
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http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_fe3731430e44764aea198dd8dec22df2.xml |
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[4] |
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http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_1687fbef6f25b665b8ab5db270d5e485.xml |
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