On Fri, 8 Aug 2014 at 6:35:01 +0000, Torrance, Douglas wrote: > Hi everyone, > > A little over a year ago, there was some discussion about what to do in > regards to the dockapps repo and hosting tarballs [1]. Most users > either install their distribution's package or build the source directly > from git, but package maintainers for the various distros need nice > official tarballs to download. Some good ideas were thrown around, but > nothing really happened. > > As I am the Debian maintainer for several of these dockapps, this is an > issue that interests me. In the past, I've just created little > Sourceforge projects for each one, but I don't really feel like that's a > good solution. These things should stay centralized and under the > control of the Window Maker team. I have a proposal. > > First, we tag every version of each dockapp in the repo. This was > recently done for wmix-3.2. I've spent some time over the past few days > doing all the legwork and figuring out which version goes with each > commit. I've attached a script which will tag everything. (Note that > the majority of packages have one corresponding tag -- the first commit > in the repo.) > > Next, we add a "dockapps" section to windowmaker.org that serves as a > frontend to the git repo. It would serve essentially the same purpose > as dockapps.windowmaker.org did, but instead of hosting actual tarballs, > it would link to snapshots from repo.or.cz for the corresponding tags. > > Note that I'm willing to do all of the work here. :) I've already > coded the basic structure and copied descriptions, images, etc. from > archive.org's copy of dockapps.windowmaker.org. You can see my work so > far at [2]. It remains to write a script to get the correct sha1 for > each tag and create the download links. > > What does everyone think?
That's a really good idea. I've already pushed the tags from your script to the repository. However, I'm not sure if we can replace the functionality of dockapps.windowmaker.org (when it was working) since there were many more dockapps there. But your proposal is definitely worth trying and I'm willing to help. -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
