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On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Corentin Chary |
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<corentin.chary@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> Ccing Rafael. |
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> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Yanbo Wang <wybb86@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> Hi everyone, |
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>> I'm a post graduate student from China. I'm interested in the idea about |
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>> Package statistics reporting tool and I'd like to take part in this year's GSoc |
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>> as a student. |
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>> I have read the code written by Vikraman and deployed the server on my gentoo. |
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>> The server gathered a lot of information about environment and |
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>> packages installed. |
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>> I could get the statistic through web interface or terminal.That's |
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>> very great, I really want |
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>> to contribute to the project. |
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>> Please tell me this year's focus, and I have some ideas to share. |
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>> 1. Upload more information such as developers' email, whether the packages |
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>> installed is stable or not, the crash info. |
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>> 2. Some statistics like popularity(recently installed packages, least |
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>> popular packages) |
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>> or the relationship between packages could be done in a cronjob. |
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>> 3. Integrate with bugzilla. Developers can easily get the bugs of |
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>> packages through |
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>> statistic web interface or terminal, like PyBugz [1]. These will help |
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>> developers find bugs |
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>> of their packages easier. |
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@Yanbo, thanks for your interest. Some of your ideas are great, but |
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one of the things that we should keep in mind for this project is |
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privacy. We should make sure that the user is aware of what data he is |
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sending for our servers, and disable it if needed. The code should be |
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able to handle this properly. I think that we shouldn't install a |
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cronjob automatically, for example. |
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>> About me: |
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>> I’ve had 3 years’ experience in java development (Java Web and Swing), 2 years' |
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>> in python development (Django) and also be fimilar with c/c++. I’ve been using |
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>> gentoo for over 1 year and I really want to contribute a little to |
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>> gentoo community. |
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>> [1] http://www.liquidx.net/pybugz/ |
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> |
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> I took a quick look at last year code, and I think the project would |
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> be easier to extend if it was using django. This would avoid writing |
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> custom SQL queries, etc... And you can probably steal some code from |
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> euscan to do that. |
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> Note that I'm not the mentor for this project and it is just an idea. |
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@Corentin: During last year's gsoc I talked quickly with Vikraman and |
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Alec about the web framework being used. I agree that web.py isn't the |
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better tool for the job, I think I suggested flask that time, don't |
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recall correctly. |
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This topic should be well discussed, because any change of framework |
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will spend a considerable amount of time, considering that we just |
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have 3 months. |
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> I think this years goals should be: |
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> - stabilization of the client, and integration with the base system, |
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> documentation during installation, etc... |
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> - adding more features to the web interface, like what we can find on |
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> http://popcon.debian.org/ (charts, sortable tables, overlays usage, |
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> etc..) |
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> - integration with other gentoo webservices (how ?) |
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> - putting the project in production of gentoo-infra |
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@Corentin: I tend to agree with these goals. Thanks for the answer. |
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@Yanbo, your ideas are good, but keep security and privacy in mind. I |
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think that these are the key points of the success of this project. |
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Also, automatic bug reports are cool, but we need to stabilize the |
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basic features first. |
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Best regards, |
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-- |
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Rafael Goncalves Martins |
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Gentoo Linux developer |
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http://rafaelmartins.eng.br/ |
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