[gentoo-dev] GLEP15 (GLSR) Status Update

[Ian Leitch]

Hi all,

Apparently a few of you have been wondering about the status of this
glep, so here you go; an update. 

There are currently two people working on the GLSR (Gentoo Linux Script
Repository), myself and Scott Hadfield <shadfiel@×××.ca>. Development is
going at a nice speed so we may have something to show in the not so
distant future. The features me and Scott have planned so far outstretch
the GLEP, so expect something a little bigger/better than originaly
planned. 

We have a large amount of the "backend" sutff completed, this leaves us
with mostly creating the actual pages and features. 

Some general ideas we are planning to/have implemented:
* Syntax highlighted scripts
* class/method/function collpasing in script views
* A ranking system for users based on the rating of their own script
submissions.
* The usual browse by language/category, top 10,20,30 etc
* Scripts bundeled into an archive for users to download (as per the
glep)
* An easy to use script submission service

We are trying hard to make this site very community orientated, meaning
you can expect similarites to the forums and sourceforge. We are also
making sure the system is highly manageble, future admins can expect a
script review assignment system similar in some ways to bugzilla, among
many other handy tools.  

We don't realy have much in the way of a time based roadmap, so I won't
bother with one. You'll hear the noise once some beta come out for
testing :) 

When we reach 1.0 and go public on Gentoo servers, we plan to release
the code to the public. Python isn't a hugely popular web-based
language, so some user may find our modules reusable in other projects. 

Oh, and we currently have around 1,500 lines of code down, if thats
anything to go by..

Watch this space!

Regards,
-- 
Ian Leitch
Gentoo Linux Developer

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