On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 07:16:45PM -0500, Kevin Horton wrote: > > Yeah, I suspected the functionality of the package tracker was a good > part of the problem. It really needs some sort of way to > differentiate items that are waiting for the submitter to respond > from items that are waiting for an "official fink person" to tend to. > But, I realize that Sourceforge is what it is, and it would be a big > job to design a proper tracker and find a way to host it. > > So, would it help if I put up a web page that listed which tracker > items were waiting for someone from fink to tend to? The list should > also have the name of the fink guy who has been dealing with a > package if it is a work in progress. What other info would be > worthwhile? Last updated date, I guess.
A link to each item (i.e., make the page an enhanced alternative to tracker "browse" mode instead of just a list). I just submitted a request for some of these features (last-updated date and user in browse mode) to SF...will see if they have any thoughts. > I could probably update the list once a day or so. This would be a > completely manual effort at first, but I have been thinking of > learning PHP, and I will probably be stuck on the road for a few days > with some spare evenings next week. So, I could try to hack together > some sort of PHP/MYSQL thing that allowed some interaction - i.e. you > tell it that you have responded to a tracker item, and it moves it > over to the list of items are are waiting for the submitter. > Comments? How about subscribing to the fink trackers mailing list and have procmail call a script that updates your thing based on that? Given that the messages are in a well-defined format, doesn't sound too hard to parse out the tracker name and item summary, a URL to the item, the status (drop it from your list if closed), last-update user and date, etc. dan -- Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Perforce Software. Perforce is the Fast Software Configuration Management System offering advanced branching capabilities and atomic changes on 50+ platforms. Free Eval! http://www.perforce.com/perforce/loadprog.html _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
