[gentoo-soc] [Report 3] layman improvements

[gentoo-soc] [Report 3] layman improvements

[Devan Franchini]

Hello everyone!

This week, the following has been accomplished:

1.) Preparations for a new release have been made:
     * Code has been refined and cleaned up in preparation
       for this release.
     * Changes to layman's man page and layman.cfg have
       been made to reflect the changes being implemented.
2.) Changes to the repository.dtd have been made:
     * With these changes, the following can be done:
        - IRC channel information can be added to an overlay.
        - overlays can specify a branch that they sync from.
3.) Along with these changes I am in the process of adding
     branch support for git and other overlay types that allow
     it.

Goals for next week:

* Continue refining all code + commits.
* Get the .dtd patch I created applied to the proper repo.
* Finish adding overlay branch support.
* Prepare for a new layman release (may be in the same week).

To anyone interested the source code and my commits can be found on
git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/[1][1] or on github.com[2] on layman's
gsoc2014 branch.

  [1]http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/layman.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/gsoc2014
  [1][1] Because my main computer has been down I haven't been able to
           push the commits to this repo.
  [2]https://github.com/twitch153/layman/tree/gsoc2014

Best of luck to everyone on their projects.

With regards,
    Devan Franchini (twitch153)