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2008
7 Oct
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Leo Eraly wrote: > On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 22:50 +0200, Pascal Bleser wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Michal Marek wrote: >> [...] >>> But in both cases a mail to opensuse-packaging "Is anyone working on >>> XYZ" would have worked as well, right? I'm not saying a regular >>> packagers meeting is a bad idea, but I think to avoid duplicate >>> packaging work, there are better means of coordination that having to >>> wait six days till the next meeting ;). >> Agreed, I don't think it would be useful for that purpose. >> While it might be a good idea, although I'm not sure what we'd talk >> about :), we'd rather need some proper web application for >> - - managing a wishlist >> - - have packagers take items from the wishlist >> (and no, not the wiki) > > You are right, the wiki is a pain for this > > For that purpose something like debian is using could be useful > http://packages.qa.debian.org/common/index.html > > At lot of this functionality is maybe already in OBS or could be added > to OBS. IMHO it would be even easier to just discuss a bit about the model (think "database tables and fields", if you prefer), a few features, and whip it up with Grails -- scaffolding should be sufficient given it would be very simplistic.. Grails generates the model, the CRUD controllers and views and... add a plugin for authentication, that's it. A simple CRUD web application with authentication for 2 or 3 tables is done in a few hours. And off the top of my head, a single table would even be enough, with metadata about the package requests (website, description, license), a status field (request, taken, done), and that's pretty much about it. OK, add a "packagers" table with contact information about the packagers who may pick requests from the queue. That's.. dunno.. an evening or two. The pain, as usual, would be to authenticate against iChain, as it isn't open, can only be done from something hosted at Novell, etc... > If we would like to make more people contribute to contrib something > like that could be helpful. Absolutely. We need better, more specific tooling, and for that we need more software developers. And we need to get rid of iChain or have an alternative gateway to it (e.g. OpenID or whatever). cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser <pascal.bleser@opensuse.org> /\\ http://opensuse.org -- I took the green pill _\_v FOSDEM::23+24 Feb 2008, Brussels, http://fosdem.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFI647Tr3NMWliFcXcRAsHiAJ4tZkWACHIBaARw3gELUKzy1I0MTQCbBzrM KcmUlq7IFQ37EZ/pL1CQxbM= =clM3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org