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On Wed, 04 Mar 2009 04:01:36 +0200 |
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Mart Raudsepp <leio@g.o> wrote: |
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> I'm collecting ideas from the wider development and contributing |
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> community on how to help maintainers and contributors get work done |
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> quicker, or rephrased - how to get more done in the limited time we |
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> have. |
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> This basically means ideas for tools, scripts, or functionality in |
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> some hypothetical centralized maintainer helper website or GUI/CLI |
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> program that would help save time in taking care of some of the |
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> gruntwork that gets done by maintainers right now manually or by |
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> scripts that don't get shared and re-used and generalized as much as |
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> they could. |
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> Then afterwards I can sort through the suggestions/ideas, try to make |
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> a summary and arrange some of them to actually happen. |
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One tool I used a lot before metadata.xml USE flags sprung up |
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everywhere was metagen (in the tree under apps-portage), written by |
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pythonhead. For anyone who hasn't used it, it's a commandline util |
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written in python (surprise!) for generating metadata.xml. You can |
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give it a herd, maintainer name/email, maintainer description, package |
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description, etc., and it will hock out a xml loogie for you. I've |
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been meaning to update it for USE flags (and whatever else we're |
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stuffing into xml these days) as a learn-python project, but like all |
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my learn-* projects it's never gotten anywhere. Maybe someone with the |
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requisite skills and boredom level might be interested in poking at it. |
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gcc-porting, by design, by neglect |
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treecleaner, for a fact or just for effect |
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