Re: Idea: frontend tool for more efficient license reviewing based on tree-structured IR

2020-03-12 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Osamu Aoki (2020-03-12 14:52:24) > On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 04:54:32PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Long description of debmake claims it "does more than what > > licensecheck(1) offers" but I am puzzled what that sentence means - > > more polished experience (even if less

Re: Idea: frontend tool for more efficient license reviewing based on tree-structured IR

2020-03-12 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 04:54:32PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting Mo Zhou (2019-12-27 02:56:07) > > I created an amount of NEW packages as a DD, and reviewed an amount of > > NEW packages in the NEW queue as FTP trainee. > > Great. Also because your experience as FTP trainee sheds

Re: Idea: frontend tool for more efficient license reviewing based on tree-structured IR

2020-01-06 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Friday, 27 December 2019 02:56:07 CET Mo Zhou wrote: > https://wiki.debian.org/CopyrightReviewTools > > I'm unfamiliar with most of them. I'm only describing the two I'm familiar > with. Both licensecheck (Jonas) and debmake (Osamu) do template/regex > matching. I'd suggest you to look at

Re: Idea: frontend tool for more efficient license reviewing based on tree-structured IR

2020-01-04 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Michael Lustfield (2020-01-04 08:01:31) > On Sat, 28 Dec 2019 13:49:18 + > Mo Zhou wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 04:00:33PM -0600, Michael Lustfield wrote: > > > I started a similar effort when I first became a trainee. > > > Unfortunately, a lot of our non-trainees seem to be

Re: Idea: frontend tool for more efficient license reviewing based on tree-structured IR

2020-01-03 Thread Michael Lustfield
On Sat, 28 Dec 2019 13:49:18 + Mo Zhou wrote: > On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 04:00:33PM -0600, Michael Lustfield wrote: > > I started a similar effort when I first became a trainee. Unfortunately, a > > lot > > of our non-trainees seem to be burned out, which means no reviews, and no > > reviews

Re: Idea: frontend tool for more efficient license reviewing based on tree-structured IR

2020-01-02 Thread Sam Hartman
I've reviewed your proposal. It seems sane, but is not something I'd contribute to this year. I would potentially use a really good version of this as an uploader. I'd ask you to consider how to minimize the debian/copyright. Since you don't want to have wildcards for files in

Re: Idea: frontend tool for more efficient license reviewing based on tree-structured IR

2019-12-28 Thread Mo Zhou
On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 04:00:33PM -0600, Michael Lustfield wrote: > > ## Motivations > > I've had similar motivations. Since becoming a Trainee, I've found the review > process to be rather painful. I think the slow and klunky tools we use are a > big problem and likely contribute significantly

Re: Idea: frontend tool for more efficient license reviewing based on tree-structured IR

2019-12-28 Thread Mo Zhou
On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 04:54:32PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Long description of debmake claims it "does more than what > licensecheck(1) offers" but I am puzzled what that sentence means - more > polished experience (even if less accurate), perhaps? IIRC it appends the license texts to

Re: Idea: frontend tool for more efficient license reviewing based on tree-structured IR

2019-12-27 Thread Michael Lustfield
On Fri, 27 Dec 2019 01:56:07 + Mo Zhou wrote: > [...] > My idea > --- > > ## Motivations I've had similar motivations. Since becoming a Trainee, I've found the review process to be rather painful. I think the slow and klunky tools we use are a big problem and likely contribute

Re: Idea: frontend tool for more efficient license reviewing based on tree-structured IR

2019-12-27 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Mo Zhou (2019-12-27 02:56:07) > I created an amount of NEW packages as a DD, and reviewed an amount of > NEW packages in the NEW queue as FTP trainee. Great. Also because your experience as FTP trainee sheds some light on what may actually aid ftpmaster processing (rather than guessing

Idea: frontend tool for more efficient license reviewing based on tree-structured IR

2019-12-26 Thread Mo Zhou
Hi fellow devs, I created an amount of NEW packages as a DD, and reviewed an amount of NEW packages in the NEW queue as FTP trainee. Both of the two kinds of work involves an important part -- sometimes annoying -- license checking. People keeps complaining about it, and recently there were some