From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4222 invoked by uid 1002); 15 Oct 2003 16:53:06 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 18465 invoked from network); 15 Oct 2003 16:53:06 -0000 From: Brian Jackson Organization: Gentoo Linux To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 11:59:36 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.9 References: <20031015155730.GY1650@mail.lieber.org> In-Reply-To: <20031015155730.GY1650@mail.lieber.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200310151159.37217.iggy@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP #15 - a gentoo script repository. X-Archives-Salt: 8fdad3ac-7ba0-49b8-a0ee-58a19cde6c85 X-Archives-Hash: dccb1304c5b949731c657e2983416fb7 On Wednesday 15 October 2003 10:57 am, Kurt Lieber wrote: > I missed the original thread on this GLEP, so apologies for the delay in > responding. > > For those who missed the original discussion as well, please see this > thread: > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/12750 > > So, let me start by saying that I support the idea behind this GLEP, though > I would like to see some modifications made and some questions answered > before approving it. > > Some comments in no particular order: > > * I dislike the idea of making this a plain page. For it to be effective, > I think it needs to have some searching and filtering capabilities > straight away. Okay, I didn't know what type of infrastructure commitment we could expect so I was shooting for the most simple thing. Something that work on the existing webnodes. > > One thing I'm not willing to do is simply throw a page up there and let > people start contributing scripts. This will *quickly* become > unmanageable and unusable. If we're going to do this, we need to design > it correctly from the start. Understandable, I'll get something worked up and put it on my site for perusal. As per discussion on irc, I'll stick with python/php and mysql > > * Rather than including this in another project page, such as tools or > base, I'd rather see this as a standalone application, personally. Say, > scripts.gentoo.org. This is largely a personal preference and I'm open > to discussing it, however. I just feel that this doesn't fit neatly into > the mandate of tools and/or base and it would see more use as a > standalone app similar to the (now dead, but soon to be reborn) > stats.gentoo.org. Other projects could link to specific sections from > their pages as they wished. > > * "A scripts@gentoo.org email alias would be setup and forwarded to the > team that will accept and publish these scripts to the website." > > Who is this team? This needs to be in place and functioning before this > GLEP can be approved. Well, so far I have about 4 people who are interested in working on this, and I'm sure more will raise their hands. > > * In addition to being divided by task, this app also needs to be able to > filter by language (python, shell, perl, etc.) See the first bullet > point. okay, will do > > * There need to be standards and guidelines on what is required to have a > script be included in the repository. Chief among these standards must > be documentation about how the script works, what it does, any special > requirements, etc. agreed, I was going to require a usage blurb and long description for everything, and show that just below each script > > * I would really, really like to see some sort of interactive application > where users could make comments on various scripts. For a perfect > example of what I'm referring to, see PHP's documentaion: > > http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php > > Specifically, the user contributed notes at the bottom. IMO, I think > this is the perfect interface for a scripts.gentoo.org type application. that sounds like a good plan, I'll look and see if I can find the code for it, and see if there is anything I can steal, I mean borrow. > > * Who all is going to build this? The folks behind the scripts@gentoo.org > alias? Someone else? I haven't found a web programmer yet, so I'll probably do the rough draft > > So, basically, I think the idea is great and am willing to support it from > an infrastructure perspective. If there are people willing to devote the > elbow grease necessary to put this together, then great. Excellent! I'll let you know when I've got something for you to look at. --Iggy > > --kurt > -- Home -- http://www.brianandsara.net Gentoo -- http://gentoo.brianandsara.net -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list