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On Sunday 09 June 2002 10:39 am, Karl Trygve Kalleberg wrote: |
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> Increasing the visibility of which ebuild submissions are in the pipe is |
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> something we'd very much like to do. It is a fairly easy affair, and will |
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> probably be handled in my proposition for a new ebuild submission system. |
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I haven't really developed the idea sitting around in my head yet but trying |
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to piece all of the ideas floating around for an interface (note: i am not an |
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interface design person so this could be way wrong). Would it make sense to |
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have maybe a heirarchial view for submitted ebuilds for where their creator? |
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thinks they should go in the portage tree. Maybe on the views have different |
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icons showing which tree has new ebuilds that need testing and it would be |
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easier for people that only like to test, for example, chat programs (assume |
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there are these people) to focus on their area of expertise. I don't know if |
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the new ebuild submission thing will be something that will help this problem |
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or not. I also could be way out in left field. |
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> The biggest problem for the maintainers is the varying quality of ebuilds. |
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> Few, if any submissions are correct on the first go, and many of the |
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> bugs/problems identified could be checked programmatically. |
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> Submissions should then be run through a "screening" script that checks |
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> for syntactic and semantic completeness, verifies dependencies, |
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> well-formedness of ebuild, digest, changelog, etc. |
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It wouldn't be very hard to write a recursive descent parser to run through an |
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ebuild would it? I can try to whip something out myself if needed or work |
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with someone to write possibly a perl script that can be run on the files |
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after an ebuild is submitted, before the confirmation page saying that they |
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tested the layout and formality requirements. The biggest problems I'd have |
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with this is that I know a very little bit of python and don't have a whole |
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lot of experience with complex ebuilds. I don't think it would be super hard |
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with basic ones though. Let me know if this is something that is of use and |
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someone would like to help me with it. |
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Justin Lambert |
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