Hi Eric This is a really interesting effort and I think it would be good to find a way to get Willi's efforts integrated somehow into the changelog for the monthly test releases. But as you've mentioned, there's a lot of overlap here. I think the right place to start is to talk about it. But we NEED TO HAVE THE CONVERSATION ON THE EMAIL LIST, so everyone can see it and talk about it. That's how "open source" works.
I don't know the right solution to this, but if we DISCUSS IT TOGETHER ON THE EMAIL LIST we can figure it out. I imagine there's a way that Willi might create a file (export from his spreadsheet? or some other method?) in some format that the automated distro build system can read, and collate the data into the changelog that way. On Thu, Feb 1, 2024 at 4:18 PM Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote: > > > Hi Jim, Willi is working on a spreadsheet which lists: > > website, our gitlab copy URL *or* some contact info or alternate URL, > creator / maintainer, version (in distro versus upstream) and license > > for most of the packages in our distro. This seems to overlap > heavily with metadata in our LSM, so it would be good if we > could combine the data sources somehow. In other words: The > spreadsheet info could be added to our LSM and cases where > the upstream version is newer than ours could be updated. > > Conversely, Willi might be duplicating efforts in finding > package URL, maintainers and contacts in cases where those > listed in the LSM are still valid, so those could be added > to his spreadsheet. > > In general, I sense some risks of duplicate work here! Who > would be the right people to contact to get both metadata > "repositories" merged? Our LSM and that spreadsheet, that > is? And who and how generates our HTML from LSM these days? > > Background is that I would *really* like to get changelog > info when packages get updated. The automated mails that > get triggered by Jerome's toolchain just tell me THAT a > new version got published, and which, but not WHY, nor > WHAT changed in that. So Willi sent me that table in the > hope that it could help me answer the question, while I > think he should not be putting all that effort in some > SEPARATE data table in the first place, but merge that. > > Regards, Eric > _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
