-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dear list,
I've been running mentors.debian.net for quite some years now. The software running the repository including importers, user handling, package checks and IRC bot has been a custom thing right from the start [1]. It's now already the third version of the software but still in certain areas it's not very fault-tolerant. So last year (2008) after a project proposal I mentored Jonny Lamb as a Google Summer of Code student working on a web application that would be useful both as a personal repository (what Ubuntu calls "PPA" = personal package archive) but still extendable enough to suit the needs of mentors.debian.net. It is called "debexpo" and its project page is available at http://debexpo.workaround.org/ As usual with software projects the last lines were coded hours before the deadline so it was sufficiently done for Google but not tested by the audience due to lack of time. That said even after a year of finishing the project it has still not replaced mentors.debian.net and meanwhile everybody who initially showed interest has lost that because patches were accepted slowly and the software wasn't perfectly documented. - From the feedback I get and the number of packages uploaded I'd say that mentors.debian.net is worth being kept alive. This is where I need some help. Fixing the current code is not what I want. Instead I would like to get some help with "debexpo". Anybody who knows about Python and Debian source packages and perhaps even the "Pylons" web framework is invited to take a look and help. I will try to revive the project again but perhaps with more helping hands it can be done faster and with better ideas. Even for package maintainers who wish to host their own private repositories "debexpo" will be a cool thing. Please join the mailing list (http://workaround.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debexpo-devel) if you are interested. Everyone else: don't worry - mentors.debian.net will be kept running. :) Kind regards Christoph Footnote [1]: I was called stupid why I didn't just use the "dak" software that is also used to run the official repositories but it seemed far less magic to reinvent the wheel then to dash through other people's barely documented code. "dak" was (and probably still is) way less user-friendly than I intended mentors.debian.net to be. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAksUMb8ACgkQCV53xXnMZYZOPwCg42fhzCyuj3XVCbGQpXBClfpW 5WgAoPENJQ6vpql6aSiYjBJNxijEZGIk =M9UG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
