Re: [gentoo-dev] [2&3]/3 API & files

["Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@gentoo.org>]

On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 02:08:00PM +0200, Alex Legler wrote:
> On 16.06.2013 03:21, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> >> Special pages and contents
> >> --------------------------
> >> herds.xml, repositories.xml, etc.:
> >> As these are intended for other applications to use, these should go to
> >> a new site, possibly api.gentoo.org, initially fed from a git repository.
> >> This site should get backed by SSL.
> > Here's a partial list of the ones I know about:
> > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/repositories.xml
> > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/treecleaners/maintainer-needed.xml
> > http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/mirrors3.xml
> > Both of these are broken I think:
> > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/perl/outdated-cpan-packages.xml
> > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/perl/outdated-cpan-packages-perl-experimental.xml
> > 
> > - Do you know of more?
> 
> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/metastructure/herds/herds.xml
> 
> > - How can we better encourage these to move to an API site?
> Not sure what you mean with that.
It needs to be really easy for any developer to throw up a new data
source w/ scripts onto the API site.

Even qa-reports is somewhat stalled, and doesn't have good visibility,
because it's not that easy for any dev to add something new to it.

> >> Image resources:
> >> These can be uploaded to the Wiki.
> > How can we ensure later that the media files don't get deleted?
> Deletion is restricted to administrators, mediawiki also keeps old
> versions around in case someone reuploads a file.
> To prevent even that, we can restrict editing certain assets to developers.
See my other comment about git-mediawiki maybe, that would satisfy my
needs, just having old versions of the images around as needed (not
admin-deletable).

> >> Other files and downloads:
> >> Until proper project file hosting is implemented, again a simple
> >> git-backed static site, possibly projects.gentoo.org.
> > Please don't put lots of binary files in Git.
> > 
> How do we expose that site to developers then? Akin to the mirroring
> system on d.g.o?
I need to dust off the project hosting proposal, because there are a lot
of files that need to move to it (like all the elections & PR
materials).

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