Re: [gentoo-dev] stabilization candidates rss feed & html pages

[Brian Dolbec]

On Wed, 2013-01-23 at 01:15 -0200, Rafael Goncalves Martins wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 10:57 PM, Brian Dolbec <dolsen@g.o> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 14:44 +0100, Theo Chatzimichos wrote:
> >> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Petteri Räty <betelgeuse@g.o> wrote:
> >> > On 13.1.2013 0.49, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote:
> >> >> Please review attached automatically generated stabilization candidates
> >> >> for January.
> >> >>
> >> >> I don't want to annoy people with automatically filed bugs, and at the
> >> >> same time I also received lots of positive feedback about the effort to
> >> >> keep the stable tree more up-to-date.
> >> >>
> >> >> I think the best way to proceed is to listen to that feedback and
> >> >> continue the effort, while also keeping an updated list of exclusions
> >> >> for packagers/herds that are actively stabilized by maintainers.
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> > I have an RSS feed for this purpose at:
> >> >
> >> > http://gentoo.petteriraty.eu/stable.rss
> >> >
> >> > Sources are available here:
> >> >
> >> > https://github.com/betelgeuse/scripts/blob/master/rss-changelog
> >> >
> >> > Maybe this is something that should be pushed to official Gentoo
> >> > infrastructure so more people know about it and use it?
> >>
> >> File a bug against us then, with all the information needed for the deployment
> >>
> >> Theo
> >>
> > I had a look at the script, unfortunately (for me), it's both a ruby
> > script and deps on paludis to get the information.
> >
> > Personally I think this would work well, but re-written in python and
> > use portage for info.  As euscan is all about scanning for upgradeable
> > pkgs, it is already getting updated pkg info, scanning metadata.xml,
> > etc. using portage, gentoolkit, and custom code.  So this would fit well
> > with it.  It is python, django based.  It could also offer the rss feed
> > in a web page with a search box, and/or integrate the candidates into
> > the pkgs status reports it does.
> >
> > Second reason, I believe it is getting or already has deployment on
> > gentoo infra servers.
> >
> > I pinged `fox` in #-www about it, Corentin <iksaif> wasn't online there
> > at the time.  cc'ing them here.
>
> I think that euscan would benefit of this feature, but the your
> arguments against ruby/paludis aren't valid IMO.

That's exactly why I put in the "(for me)" in that statement. 

> If the euscan guys
> want to integrate the feature, nice.

Since Euscan is python, django based and already using python interfaces
to portage, gentoolkit.  It would be logical to redo it in python.  But
I believe it is set up to be able to run pretty much any script/binary
as well.

If this script gets run on gentoo infra, then euscan can just use that
feed for display and add code to parse it for it's other reports.

It is likely simpler for euscan to add picking up the additional data to
produce the stabilization reports/feeds while it is scanning the newly
sync'd tree and updating it's db.  Producing the rss feed is simple at
that point.  Plus the data for other report formats would already be in
it's db, making the rest of the displays simpler.


> If not, lets just stick with this
> script.

Let's wait to hear from Corentin and Federico on it...

> It is simple enough that even ruby n00bs like me can
> understand what it does :P
>
> BR.
>
>

It is for me too.

> --
> Rafael Goncalves Martins
> Gentoo Linux developer
> http://rafaelmartins.eng.br/
>

-- 
Brian Dolbec <dolsen@g.o>