Just a quick note: I'm pretty confident the medium term plan is to replace the entire projects.a.o build system (rather complicated, involving multiple steps in Perl and XSLT) with the software behind the projects-new.apache.org site. Thus, I highly recommend looking at the below work instead of doing anything with the old Perl!
Discussion on making changes to the code: https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/community-dev/201503.mbox/%3C1935041.Ku0l4cXdRX%40herve-desktop%3E Vote thread to start the process: https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/community-dev/201503.mbox/%3C54F9DB53.1030005%40redhat.com%3E Sources and docs for projects-new: https://projects-new.apache.org/about.html - Shane On 4/27/15 4:51 AM, Sergio Fernández wrote: > Hi David, > > I could help on the doap part, but I see that part of the site is built > using Perl, so I have an issue with that: on the one hand it's language I > never felt comfortable with, on the other the RDF support is very limited. > > Therefore, before jumping to the see, I'd like to ask you guys a couple of > details: how much that part of the site is build on doap? and how actively > maintained is it? Before I could commit some time to branch it and refactor > it to Python for instance, where I'm more skilled and I can warranty better > RDF pipeline. > > So comments from you are welcomed. > > Cheers, > > > > > > On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 3:20 AM, David Crossley <cross...@apache.org> wrote: > >> The 3-hourly processing of the list of DOAP files for people.apache.org >> site >> has been spewing errors for many days. >> >> I do not know enough about how the site build works >> (see >> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/infrastructure/site-tools/trunk/projects) >> and i do not have it installed locally. >> >> I have done some investigation. >> This error message on 2015-04-17 at 15:30 was the first: >> >> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-site-dev/201504.mbox/%3c20150417153422.0b7c817...@minotaur.apache.org%3e >> >> These are the only likely changes that i can find >> leading up to the error: >> >> Author: hboutemy >> Date: Tue Apr 14 00:31:26 2015 >> URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1673325 >> Log: s/asfext:PMC/asfext:pmc/ to match the extension >> >> Author: gmcdonald >> Date: Tue Apr 14 10:28:09 2015 >> URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1673402 >> Log: remove zookeeper entry for now >> Modified: infrastructure/site-tools/trunk/projects/pmc_list.xml >> (Note that there is still a zookeeper entry in >> site-tools/trunk/projects/files.xml if that matters. >> The commit comment is not useful.) >> >> However those were a few days before this error started, so they >> do not seem likely. >> >> Perhaps it is coming from a remote project DOAP file, >> but the build system does not report which file it is having >> trouble with. >> >> These files also are utilised for people-new.apache.org with a manual >> import at present. >> >> That is all that i have time to do, so hopefully this helps >> someone else to go further. >> >> -David >> > > >
