On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 11:18:29AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > I just notice that the discussion is quite aged (two years) but finally I > found a quite easy mechanism to implement the GIS package thermometer for > all Blends. If you run the script available under > > > http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=blends/website.git;a=blob;f=misc/sql/gis-thermometer.sh > > with the command line option 'debian-gis' on alioth you get all data > needed for the Debian GIS package thermometer[1] (as well as the Ubuntu > version - please tell me whether those Ubuntu releases might be > sufficient or you prefer other releases listed as well). > > I attached a gzipped output of > > gis-thermometer.sh debian-gis > > to this mail to give you a quick overview about the data. > > What is left to do is some wrapper to turn this into a web page - > perhaps in parallel to the existing tasks and bugs pages of the web > sentinel. So I would write a Genshi template and a Python wrapper > around the query to finalise this if you agree with this procedure. >
Nice results thanks. > The only thing that need to be adopted from Debian GIS team is the way > you are specifying your not yet packaged target software. I have no > idea in what way you do thie inside the GIS thermometer but I'd > recommend to follow other Blends techniques. The best way would be to > inject a packaging skeleton into VCS. This is parsed and injected into > UDD and thus can be easily used inside the query. Finally it is a > preparation for your intended goal to package the software. I checked > that it takes about three minutes to fill in some skeleton debina/control, > debian/changelog and debian/copyright (machine readable, only the first > License field is parsed - no need for completing everything). If you > do not have this three minutes per package I doubt that there will be > any serious work done in the next year and so it can be easily droped > from your todo list to do it at some point in time later. In case your > agree to this prospective package in VCS method simply mentioning the > binary package name inside the tasks file is sufficient to let all > tools (inclusive the to be finished thermometer) sufficiently. > IMHO the list of package of interest could be easily and alternatively maintained on the wiki, without adding more complications to people already overloaded and overstressed :) > Just let me know if you like this idea and I'll go on with the Genshi > template to create Debian Blends thermometer (+ optional Ubuntu > thermometer, probably even enhanced to "other derivatives" thermometer). > I personally like it -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-gis-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130621100059.gg4...@blegrez.ba.issia.cnr.it
