On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 10:24:19 +0200 Jonas Smedegaard wrote: [...] > On 12-08-28 at 10:02pm, Francesco Poli wrote: [...] > > In bug #472199 (I am Cc:ing its e-mail address), a number of different > > people asked for this feature to be implemented in licensecheck and > > you stepped in, expressing the intention to integrate this capability > > into licensecheck. > > This sounds really great! Thanks a lot! > > > > Unfortunately there seems to be no visible progress since August 2010... > > Is there any well-hidden progress, by chance?!? > > Unfortunately only progress is in my head. :-/
That's definitely well-hidden! ;-) I hope you have a good backup strategy for your head... ;-D > > I have been granted write access to devscript and have followed its > mailinglist since back then, but not yet taken time to actually do this > work. Good, so you are ready to start... > > I am still interested in this, and expect to make time for it in the > upcoming months. That's great news, indeed! > I have some ideas on how to support both very strict > and (as seems most other than myself is interested in) more relaxed > scanning. If I understand you correctly, I think the most important mode is the "strict" one: each file has to be scanned and classified as accurately as possible. > > > > I am afraid that my Perl knowledge is just a smattering and it is > > rusty, too... As a consequence, I will probably not be able to help > > much with the implementation. > > But I may help with some testing and feedback, if you are interested. > > You very nudging me like here is helpful for me to bump up the priority. > So thank you for that! You're welcome. > > I shall make noise on the bugreport when reaching something concrete to > test, so please subscribe to that if you wanna help out. I've just done so. Or, at least, I hope I managed to do so: I am not used to subscribing to bug reports, this is the first time I try... Thanks for your time! Looking forward to having something to test. Bye. -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/frx-gpg-key-transition-2010.txt New GnuPG key, see the transition document! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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