[gentoo-dev] 1/2 OT: Comprehensive Source Database

[gentoo-dev] 1/2 OT: Comprehensive Source Database

[Enrico Weigelt]

Hi folks,


I'm currently working on infrastructure for an comprehensive and
detailed source database.

It is not an replacement for freshmeat (which is good software 
index for human users), but an strictly defined database of package 
releases and assigned download URLs along with several meta-data 
(ie. maturity classifications, etc). This database can be queried 
by automated build systems to get download URLs, notify people on 
new releases, etc, etc. Distro/Package maintainers get the benefit 
of being notified properly on each new release and feeding these 
information directly into their buildsystems. 

Once the database is running, I plan to add more data, ie. hotfix
patches or other qm relevant stuff (see my recent announcement 
about my oss-qm project).

The intended audience are package maintainers and self-compiling
people as well as evryone who needs an clean database of packages,
releases and their URLs.


Anyone here interested in joining me ?


cu
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Re: [gentoo-dev] 1/2 OT: Comprehensive Source Database

[Andrew Cowie]

On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 17:57 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote:

> I'm currently working on infrastructure for an comprehensive and
> detailed source database.
> 
> It is not an replacement for freshmeat (which is good software 
> index for human users), but an strictly defined database of package 
> releases and assigned download URLs along with several meta-data 

It may or may not be what you want, but what you've described sounds
very close to what Mark Shuttleworth articulated as the vision behind
launchpad.
https://launchpad.net/

I'm not sure if any other distros besides Ubuntu are using it yet, but
certainly things will improve geometrically as they start to.

You may want to investigate using it and/or offering to plug the
functionality you want into it.

AfC
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Re: [gentoo-dev] 1/2 OT: Comprehensive Source Database

[Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò]

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On Tuesday 20 June 2006 04:02, Andrew Cowie wrote:
> I'm not sure if any other distros besides Ubuntu are using it yet, but
> certainly things will improve geometrically as they start to.
Considering it's not Free Software nor Open Source for the most part, I would 
be surprised.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] 1/2 OT: Comprehensive Source Database

[Josh Saddler]

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Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 June 2006 04:02, Andrew Cowie wrote:
>> I'm not sure if any other distros besides Ubuntu are using it yet, but
>> certainly things will improve geometrically as they start to.
> Considering it's not Free Software nor Open Source for the most part, I would 
> be surprised.
> 

This came up a few months ago. While in theory it might be a good idea, iirc the
devs pretty much unanimously agreed that it should not be pursued right now
until it's open-sourced.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] 1/2 OT: Comprehensive Source Database

[Enrico Weigelt]

* Andrew Cowie <andrew@operationaldynamics.com> schrieb:

Hi,

> It may or may not be what you want, but what you've described sounds
> very close to what Mark Shuttleworth articulated as the vision behind
> launchpad.
> https://launchpad.net/

on a short view, I didn't see any parallels to my source-db project.
LT seems to be some collaboration / project management platform, not
a database of package releases and their URLs.

BTW: I've now got the base structure and some crawlers running.
An very simple frontend can be seen on http://sourcefarm.metux.de/

Anyone who likes to contribute, please subscribe to the maillist
    
    oss-qm-discuss (@metux.de)
    
via
    majordomo@metux.de
    
    
cu 
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Re: [gentoo-dev] 1/2 OT: Comprehensive Source Database

[Enrico Weigelt]

Hi folks,


I've done some works meanwhile:

+ primary database structure 
+ a few scanners (gtk, apache2, linux-kernel, gnome)
+ some small webfrontend
+ an quick download url redirector

For more information see:

    http://sourcefarm.metux.de/
    
    
cu
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