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Hi folks! |
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This is the final update for the euscan GSoC project. It was a great |
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summer and I'd like to thank you all for this opportunity :D |
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As usual I remind you that the project repo is at |
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https://github.com/volpino/euscan (check that for more info) |
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Here's a summary of my work during the summer, the main goals achieved |
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and the plans for the future. I'll split the goals in euscan (euscan |
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script) and euscanwww (web interface) |
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euscan: |
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- New handlers system: plugin system with package level handlers (use |
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package <upstream> metadata) and url level handlers (use package's |
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SRC_URIs) to scan upstream |
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- Added new handlers and improved existing ones, in particular for |
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widely used services (e.g.: sourceforge, google-code, github, ...) |
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- Wrote a PoC script for getting "watch" file data from Debian packages |
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and wrote an handler that uses it. We're still working on that and we |
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have to find a good and efficient way to store addition data in |
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metadata.xml. |
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Mail to gentoo-dev: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/gentoo/dev/258330 |
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- Every found version has a confidence score based on the handler used |
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to discover it (e.g.: PyPI API has an high confidence while bruteforcing |
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urls has a low confidence) |
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- various performance improvements |
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- Added a JSON output to euscan to be machine readable |
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- Use eix --xml and Layman API to retrieve package data |
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euscanwww: |
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- Moved all tasks from shell scripts or Django management commands to |
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Celery tasks; added a tasks launcher to the admin interface |
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(this part was quite hard, getting everything to work efficiently and |
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prevent deadlocks or concurrency issues wasn't easy and Ask, the |
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developer of Celery, helped us) |
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- Provide the possibility to register and login to euscan, even using |
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Gentoo LDAP (not active until euscan will be moved into Gentoo |
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infrastructure for security reasons) |
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- Added a "refresh button" to let users request a package scan |
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- Added a "watch"/"unwatch" functionality for categories, herds, |
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maintainers, overlays and packages |
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- Implemented a personalized dashboard for registered users with a |
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summary of the status of the watched packages |
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- Personalized RSS feeds for users with only watched stuff |
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- Options for feeds to tweak output (e.g.: don't show unstable releases, |
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show only upstream versions, ...) |
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- Email newsletter for users with new upstream version of watched packages |
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- Added a form to report euscan errors |
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Other: |
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- Added test for old and new code |
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- All code is PEP8 compliant |
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For the future: |
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I plan to use euscan and my GSoC as main subject for my bachelor thesis |
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so I absolutely keep on working on that. We have a proposal to |
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gentoo-dev still pending about adding new upstream data to metadata.xml. |
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First of all we'll deal with that issue and we'll keep on working on new |
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featues, so stay tuned! |
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I achieved all the goals in my project proposal with the required |
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success criteria and I worked on other stuff as well, not strictly in my |
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project but very interesting (in particular using Debian watch data for |
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euscan). I'm really satisfied from this summer and I hope that everybody |
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had a lot of fun! |
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Thank you guys! See you around ;) |
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-- |
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f. |
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"Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a |
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violent psychopath who knows where you live." |
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(Martin Golding) |
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