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Am Sonntag, 2. Februar 2020, 12:47:55 CET schrieb Benda Xu: |
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> Dear Fellows, |
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> alicef <alicef@g.o> writes: |
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> > As always, Gentoo plans to participate in the Google Summer of Code |
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> > 2020. We are looking for new project ideas and are always open for |
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> > new mentors. |
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> > Google Summer of Code is a big opportunity for making Gentoo project more |
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> > visible and get more people interested to join Gentoo and helping out. |
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> > |
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> > [...] |
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> This year's GSoC organization application deadline is on Feb 5. The |
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> more project ideas, the better Gentoo will show itself to be prepared. |
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> If you have been thinking of adding projects to our GSoC 2020 list, this |
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> is a good chance to do so. |
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> Cheers, |
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> Benda |
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Hi, |
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I saw the idea „Big Data Infrastructure by Gentoo“ and found it kind of |
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interesting. However, I have a little bit the fear that a full automation |
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won't be possible and the whole project becomes a little bit like g-sorcery |
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(gs-pypi, gs-elpa) or g-octave: a really cool project but not used at a |
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large scale. |
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What do you think of the idea to not do this fully automated but supervised |
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by a maintainer? With that I mean an ebuild generator that generates only |
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the parts of the ebuild that it can easily parse and then present the ebuild |
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draft to a maintainer who completes it to an full ebuild. As far a I know no |
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tool like this exists. I think the focus shift helps a lot: |
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Developing a tool for the Gentoo maintainer not the Gentoo user. |
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I'm only "maintaining" an overlay so maybe I'm missing experience |
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but I often have wished a tool that automatically parses the language specific |
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packaging files and is able to generate a primitive ebuild out of that. |
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Maybe it even can do this in an interactive way: |
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"Hey, upstream needs the dependency 'foo'. In the Gentoo packages I have found |
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'dev-bar/foo' and 'dev-util/foo'. What is the correct one?" |
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With a not fully automatic tool also packages can be parsed that are not |
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in a complete closed ecosystem, like a 'meson.build' file or cmake files for |
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C++/C programs. But of course package databases like Maven/Cargo/Pypi are |
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also candidates. |
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Unfortunately, I have no time currently to participate in the GSOC. I just |
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want to mention this here as an idea. Please comment or correct me, if |
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such a tool already exists. |
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Best, |
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