This spammer is active on the tinysofa ml too, sigh Gerald
On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 17:44:19 +0200 Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Announcing the Comprehensive Source Database Project > ------------------------------------------------------ > > ==> What's it all about ? > > The CSDB project provides an uniform database with dozens of > packages, their releases and tarball locations. Using this > database, package maintainers and self-building sysops do not > need to keep track of tarball urls by their own. They simply > query the database by package name and canonical version number. > > CSDB also provides an simple URL redirector which provides > an canonical URL for accessing certain package+version tarball > and kicks you to an random download URL. This for example allows > automatic buildsystems to > > ==> How does it work ? > > Lots of crawlers scan websites and ftp servers of many projects > and feed in the found tarball URLs into our database. While feeding > in, the data is brought into an strictly canonical form. > > We've got several classes of data objects: > > * packages -> identifier, description, ... > * per package: releases -> canonical version, upstream version, ... > * per release: src_url -> source-format, url, ... > > Users can access this database via various interfaces, ie. > > + Human-readble user interface: > http://sourcefarm.metux.de/webfront/?show=world > > + Various robot interfaces: > http://wiki.metux.de/public/SourceFarm/robots > > The robot interfaces are for automated systems, ie. system builders. > For example, the URL redirector provides an uniform URL syntax for > fetching an tarball of some given package in some given (canonical) > version. It does an database lookup and kicks the client to the > actual URL. Package maintainers can simply use these URLs instead > of the actual ones and so don't have to cope with individual > release URLs anymore. > > ==> How can I contribute ? > > Contributions are always welcomed :) > > Please join our mailinglist [EMAIL PROTECTED] by writing > "subscribe oss-qm" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > You may freely use the wiki at http://sourcefarm.metux.de > but please always drop not to the maillist if you wrote something. > > ===> Further stuff: > > [ ] How CSDB was born > http://www.metux.de/articles/oss/csdb/how-csdb-was-born > > [ ] CSDB Website > http://sourcefarm.metux.de/ > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The OSS-QM Project - Comprehensive Source Database > > Official contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Website: http://sourcefarm.metux.de/ > Maintainer: Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Infrastructure: metux IT service - http://www.metux.de > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > tsl-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.trustix.org/mailman/listinfo/tsl-discuss > _______________________________________________ tsl-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.trustix.org/mailman/listinfo/tsl-discuss
