Wiki Pages that need love

Toshio Kuratomi a.badger at gmail.com
Tue Oct 14 18:05:26 UTC 2008


Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> On 14.10.2008 19:02, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:05 AM, Thorsten Leemhuis
>> <fedora at leemhuis.info> wrote:
>>> On 14.10.2008 17:49, Patrice Dumas wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 11:51:33PM +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
>>>>> database all the maintainers that maintain at least one EL branch.
>>>>> I'll
>>>>> mail Toshio to ask whether it is possible. And the text on this page
>>>>> should certainly be shortened.
>>>> Toshio kindly answered me. Currently there is no url that can be used
>>>> for that, but he did a simple script to get that information.
>>>>
>>>> The script is here:
>>>> http://toshio.fedorapeople.org/pkgdb/id_to_owner.py
>>>>
>>>> The result is here:
>>>> http://toshio.fedorapeople.org/pkgdb/epel-owner.txt
>>> /me takes a quick look.
>>>
>>> The list contains corsepiu, which according to
>>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/ContributorStatusNo
>>> doesn't want to be a EPEL Contributer and according to
>>> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/bugzilla?tg_format=plain
>>> is not maintaining any packages in EPEL directly. Maybe he's
>>> co-maintainer
>>> somewhere to make sure he sees commits, but the script did not catch
>>> that.
>>>
>>> And note, http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/ContributorStatusNo IMHO
>>> definitely should stay to give people a chance to say "Please don't
>>> bug me
>>> with EPEL at all (not even mails asking if I want to maintain the
>>> package)"
>>> The page IMHO best stays separately and is not merged into
>>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/ContributorStatus, as that makes
>>> using
>>> the page contents in scripts a lot easier.
>>>
>>
>> I think it would be better to see if we can get this into FAS and have
>> a link into FAS to show that datapoint.
> 
> Sure. That was the plan from the start, but it got forgotten and for now
> the page did the trick quite well afaics. So it IMHO should stay until
> we have something better.
> 
>>  Having a page that people may or may not know about 
> 
> That can happen in FAS as well.
> 
Thanks to ivazquez and some other people FAS has support for plugins.
This would be a good thing to include that way, I think.

-Toshio

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