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On Wednesday 15 October 2003 10:57 am, Kurt Lieber wrote: |
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> I missed the original thread on this GLEP, so apologies for the delay in |
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> responding. |
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> For those who missed the original discussion as well, please see this |
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> thread: |
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> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/12750 |
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> So, let me start by saying that I support the idea behind this GLEP, though |
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> I would like to see some modifications made and some questions answered |
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> before approving it. |
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> Some comments in no particular order: |
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> * I dislike the idea of making this a plain page. For it to be effective, |
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> I think it needs to have some searching and filtering capabilities |
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> straight away. |
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Okay, I didn't know what type of infrastructure commitment we could expect so |
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I was shooting for the most simple thing. Something that work on the existing |
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webnodes. |
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> One thing I'm not willing to do is simply throw a page up there and let |
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> people start contributing scripts. This will *quickly* become |
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> unmanageable and unusable. If we're going to do this, we need to design |
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> it correctly from the start. |
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Understandable, I'll get something worked up and put it on my site for |
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perusal. As per discussion on irc, I'll stick with python/php and mysql |
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> * Rather than including this in another project page, such as tools or |
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> base, I'd rather see this as a standalone application, personally. Say, |
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> scripts.gentoo.org. This is largely a personal preference and I'm open |
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> to discussing it, however. I just feel that this doesn't fit neatly into |
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> the mandate of tools and/or base and it would see more use as a |
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> standalone app similar to the (now dead, but soon to be reborn) |
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> stats.gentoo.org. Other projects could link to specific sections from |
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> their pages as they wished. |
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> * "A scripts@g.o email alias would be setup and forwarded to the |
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> team that will accept and publish these scripts to the website." |
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> Who is this team? This needs to be in place and functioning before this |
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> GLEP can be approved. |
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Well, so far I have about 4 people who are interested in working on this, and |
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I'm sure more will raise their hands. |
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> * In addition to being divided by task, this app also needs to be able to |
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> filter by language (python, shell, perl, etc.) See the first bullet |
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> point. |
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okay, will do |
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> * There need to be standards and guidelines on what is required to have a |
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> script be included in the repository. Chief among these standards must |
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> be documentation about how the script works, what it does, any special |
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> requirements, etc. |
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agreed, I was going to require a usage blurb and long description for |
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everything, and show that just below each script |
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> * I would really, really like to see some sort of interactive application |
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> where users could make comments on various scripts. For a perfect |
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> example of what I'm referring to, see PHP's documentaion: |
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> http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php |
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> Specifically, the user contributed notes at the bottom. IMO, I think |
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> this is the perfect interface for a scripts.gentoo.org type application. |
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that sounds like a good plan, I'll look and see if I can find the code for it, |
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and see if there is anything I can steal, I mean borrow. |
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> * Who all is going to build this? The folks behind the scripts@g.o |
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> alias? Someone else? |
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I haven't found a web programmer yet, so I'll probably do the rough draft |
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> So, basically, I think the idea is great and am willing to support it from |
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> an infrastructure perspective. If there are people willing to devote the |
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> elbow grease necessary to put this together, then great. |
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Excellent! I'll let you know when I've got something for you to look at. |
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--Iggy |
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> --kurt |
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