On May 15, 2007, at 10:42 AM, James Berry wrote:
The MacPorts Web App (mpwa) is online for some initial testing at http://db.macports.org/This is the start of a vision for a more comprehensive online repository for ports. Please see some of my sketchy documentation at:http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/users/jberry/mpwa/doc/ design.txt and http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/users/jberry/mpwa/ doc/portpkg-design.txtTo quote from the design document, my goals for mpwa are: Goals: - Develop a network-reachable port storage mechanism - Allow for ad-hoc submission of new ports/revisions by any user- Since users may submit ports and make them available, port availability is not held up for review by committers. Committers may provide special statusto approved ports. - All submissions and versions should always remain network reachable so that old versions may be installed and/or reviewed. - Allow for storage of meta information with such a submission: - Submitter - Comments by various users - Build status - (potentially binaries) - etc.- Allow for promotion of such a submission to a special status (stable, whatever)by the port maintainer or other official personnel.Note that what is visible today is not a complete implementation. The following things are implemented, for the most part:- port submit, to submit a port to the repository.- autosubmit, a script I've been running which auto submits svn checkins after they've been given a chance to stabilize.- mpwa web frontend to browse and view ports and port information. The following is not yet implemented:- A handler for the application/vnd.macports.portpkg mime-type to make it easy to download and use a given portpkg.- Any sort of local support for ports by http: url. - port get, to get a particular port and use it locally - Any remote indexing or query support - User accounts - User created tags - Signing of submissions by submitters - Support for dependencies - Nicer css design and information layout.Your feedback or help on the project is desired. In particular, if somebody want so put in a little work on the css and templates, that would be great.James
James,Looks great! Can't wait to see this up and running. I would be more than willing to help out on the design/css layout if I had some mockups or some kind of idea where to go with it.
Michael
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