On Wed, 04 Mar 2009 04:01:36 +0200 Mart Raudsepp <l...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> I'm collecting ideas from the wider development and contributing > community on how to help maintainers and contributors get work done > quicker, or rephrased - how to get more done in the limited time we > have. > > This basically means ideas for tools, scripts, or functionality in > some hypothetical centralized maintainer helper website or GUI/CLI > program that would help save time in taking care of some of the > gruntwork that gets done by maintainers right now manually or by > scripts that don't get shared and re-used and generalized as much as > they could. > > Then afterwards I can sort through the suggestions/ideas, try to make > a summary and arrange some of them to actually happen. One tool I used a lot before metadata.xml USE flags sprung up everywhere was metagen (in the tree under apps-portage), written by pythonhead. For anyone who hasn't used it, it's a commandline util written in python (surprise!) for generating metadata.xml. You can give it a herd, maintainer name/email, maintainer description, package description, etc., and it will hock out a xml loogie for you. I've been meaning to update it for USE flags (and whatever else we're stuffing into xml these days) as a learn-python project, but like all my learn-* projects it's never gotten anywhere. Maybe someone with the requisite skills and boredom level might be interested in poking at it. -- gcc-porting, by design, by neglect treecleaner, for a fact or just for effect wxwidgets @ gentoo EFFD 380E 047A 4B51 D2BD C64F 8AA8 8346 F9A4 0662
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