Bertrand Delacretaz wrote on 3/5/19 7:23 AM: > Hi, > > On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 1:16 PM Mark Cox <m...@apache.org> wrote: >> ... So before investing too more time into this, I wanted to find out if >> there's been any real attempt or plan or investigation to replace the DOAP >> files within ASF with something else.... ...snip... > It might take some initial effort to consolidate that data and fix the > software that uses it but I think it's well worth it. Considering that > this is infrastructure related, we might ask for funding for this > initial cleanup task as I'm not sure we'll get there with volunteer > energy only.
Indeed, centralizing project (including podling) metadata - somehow! - is a real need that we've never been able to meet. I also support finding funding for this to task infra to work on it (which is a topic for other lists, but it's important to note it here). Key design criteria: - Easy to maintain the whole system. - Easy to consume for all users - whimsy especially (since other places rely on that), the www.a.o website, *plus* external consumers who might want to scrape our project universe. - Easy for projects to update. In particular, having Maven, Cocoon/Forrest, GitHub plugins to auto-generate needed data is key; we can't ask all projects with existing widely-used tooling to have to add unusual steps to their release processes. Presuming board/ops/infra make this a real project (i.e. funding and timeline), where should the design discussion happen? -- - Shane Director & Member The Apache Software Foundation --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
