[gentoo-dev] Re: euscan proof of concept (like debian's uscan)

[Corentin Chary <corentin.chary@gmail.com>]

Hi again,

I found the time to work a little more on euscan:

- Git tree: http://git.iksaif.net/?p=euscan.git
- Demo web interface: http://xf.iksaif.net/dev/.euscan/web/

To feed the web interface, I created a quick&dirty euscan-update. It
currently depends on eix-0.22.5 and gentoolkit-0.3.0.

I launched a full portage scan yesterday, and as you can see on web
interface, it seems to work. You can browse by category, herd, and
maintainer.
The scan is not finished yet (currently scanning net-misc) and keep in
mind that euscan doesn't support mirror:// urls (although, it would be
easy to support some of them).

But there is still a lot to do to make something useful with that, and
I said before, I don't have a lot of time allocated to that project,
so any help would be great.

Quick TODO and ideas:
euscan:
- clean euscan and add options parsing capabilities, with tons of options
- support mirror:// (when possible)
- fix known bugs (see BUGS)

euscan-update:
- clean
- optimize and parallelize
- remove gentoolkit dependency, handle overlays, handle cumulative scans

web interface:
- display all kind of informations (metadatas, keywords, etc...)
- create charts and statistics
- mark/report false positives
- display euscan-update status
- display last euscan output message
- show when euscan can/cannot guess upstream version for a given package

misc:
- automatic bug report
- automatic email report for maintainer/herds