Olav Vitters <[email protected]> wrote:
...
> Regarding Bugzilla:
> 1. The git link at the moment is totally unreliable (it just does a
>    git.gnome.org/browse/$BUGZILLA_PRODUCT_NAME
> 2. Multiple doap files might point to the same Bugzilla product
> 3. Could be that these doap files have different categories
> 4. I don't want to touch the Bugzilla code, just focus first on ensuring
> the categories are right
> 5. There way to show things on Bugzilla might require changes in the
> doap files (e.g. additional categories, etc)
>
> Because of that I first want to get git.gnome.org right and only then
> fix Bugzilla, otherwise I go mad :-P. But it is part of the plan.

Sounds like a plan. :)

>> 2. Use this data in the various development websites, so they are more
>> interconnected. Each of the product pages in Bugzilla points to the
>> relevant git module, but it doesn't link to mailing lists. Likewise,
>> the summary page for each module on git.gnome.org could have outgoing
>> links to Bugzilla product pages, mailing lists, or wiki pages.
>
> What I want with this "about" page generated from doap is the following:
>   http://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/about/
>
> That's cgit (code behind https://git.gnome.org/browse/) upstream. We
> could auto generate this from the doap files rather easily.
>
> This "about" feature in cgit can even do subpages:
>   http://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/about/faq
>
> However, that quickly becomes messy: I don't want random HTML on
> git.gnome.org and lots of other potential issues (too much to write down
> for now).
>
> DOAP spec allows a lot btw:
>   https://github.com/edumbill/doap/blob/master/schema/doap.rdf
>
> It has a specific thing for a wiki link. So the auto generated "about"
> page would be a slightly nicer than just a boring list of links.

Having the about pages on git.gnome.org seems like a nice approach.
The only issue I see is that we're potentially duplicating material
that's on the wiki, and if people don't look at these about pages,
they won't get updated.

Allan
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