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From: Rafael Goncalves Martins <rafaelmartins@g.o>
To: Gentoo Development <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Cc: Federico fox Scrinzi <fox91@×××××.no>, iksaif@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] stabilization candidates rss feed & html pages
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 03:15:47
Message-Id: CAHgY3qeurQUnkD5BAqdvKRvFg2-_o_qfECLUO9iKuMWMAWGCVQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] stabilization candidates rss feed & html pages by Brian Dolbec
1 On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 10:57 PM, Brian Dolbec <dolsen@g.o> wrote:
2 > On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 14:44 +0100, Theo Chatzimichos wrote:
3 >> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Petteri Räty <betelgeuse@g.o> wrote:
4 >> > On 13.1.2013 0.49, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote:
5 >> >> Please review attached automatically generated stabilization candidates
6 >> >> for January.
7 >> >>
8 >> >> I don't want to annoy people with automatically filed bugs, and at the
9 >> >> same time I also received lots of positive feedback about the effort to
10 >> >> keep the stable tree more up-to-date.
11 >> >>
12 >> >> I think the best way to proceed is to listen to that feedback and
13 >> >> continue the effort, while also keeping an updated list of exclusions
14 >> >> for packagers/herds that are actively stabilized by maintainers.
15 >> >>
16 >> >
17 >> > I have an RSS feed for this purpose at:
18 >> >
19 >> > http://gentoo.petteriraty.eu/stable.rss
20 >> >
21 >> > Sources are available here:
22 >> >
23 >> > https://github.com/betelgeuse/scripts/blob/master/rss-changelog
24 >> >
25 >> > Maybe this is something that should be pushed to official Gentoo
26 >> > infrastructure so more people know about it and use it?
27 >>
28 >> File a bug against us then, with all the information needed for the deployment
29 >>
30 >> Theo
31 >>
32 > I had a look at the script, unfortunately (for me), it's both a ruby
33 > script and deps on paludis to get the information.
34 >
35 > Personally I think this would work well, but re-written in python and
36 > use portage for info. As euscan is all about scanning for upgradeable
37 > pkgs, it is already getting updated pkg info, scanning metadata.xml,
38 > etc. using portage, gentoolkit, and custom code. So this would fit well
39 > with it. It is python, django based. It could also offer the rss feed
40 > in a web page with a search box, and/or integrate the candidates into
41 > the pkgs status reports it does.
42 >
43 > Second reason, I believe it is getting or already has deployment on
44 > gentoo infra servers.
45 >
46 > I pinged `fox` in #-www about it, Corentin <iksaif> wasn't online there
47 > at the time. cc'ing them here.
48
49 I think that euscan would benefit of this feature, but the your
50 arguments against ruby/paludis aren't valid IMO. If the euscan guys
51 want to integrate the feature, nice. If not, lets just stick with this
52 script. It is simple enough that even ruby n00bs like me can
53 understand what it does :P
54
55 BR.
56
57
58 --
59 Rafael Goncalves Martins
60 Gentoo Linux developer
61 http://rafaelmartins.eng.br/

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Re: [gentoo-dev] stabilization candidates rss feed & html pages Brian Dolbec <dolsen@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] stabilization candidates rss feed & html pages "Federico \\\"fox\\\" Scrinzi" <fox91@×××××.no>