Re: fedorahosted.org main page changes

[Jorge Gallegos <kad@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Todd,

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Todd Zullinger <tmz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Jorge,

Jorge Gallegos wrote:
> I am attaching the patch here, I couldn't fully test the patch with hosted
> projects (since I'm already half asleep) but a list of svn,git and mtn
> projects (pretty printed) is here http://kad.fedorapeople.org/projects.txt .

This does expose a mildly odd difference between the title and
description fields for trac versus non-trac projects (or maybe it's
only trac versus git?):

Nope, is on all the different VCS: git, svn, hg, etc

 

 'system-config-selinux': {'desc': 'Project system-config-selinux under git',
                          'group': 'S',
                          'title': 'system-config-selinux',
                          'url': 'http://git.fedoraproject.org/git/system-config-selinux.git'},
 'system-config-services': {'desc': u'system-config-services',
                           'group': 'S',
                           'title': u'My example project',
                           'url': 'https://fedorahosted.org/system-config-services/',
                           'vcs': 'git',
                           'vcsbase': 'system-config-services.git',
                           'vcsweburl': 'https://fedorahosted.org/system-config-services/browser'},

I didn't look closely, but I'd noticed that trac projects get setup
with 'My example project' as the title by default.  It might be handy
if we could set that at creation time to be the project short
description perhaps -- though I'm not sure where exactly that title
field gets displayed.

That title gets added at creation time in the trac conf file, but only for trac projects
 

Another thing that might be worth doing is using the description file
for git repos.  I have no idea if other SCM's have something similar.
(If not, we can likely add a description file to them just as git
uses.)

Other VCS don't have such a field. I was trying to maybe come up with loading a README file in the project dir, but then again, that doesn't always have a description in the first lines, sometimes is empty, so is not a standard file. So the best I came up with was "Project X under VCS Y". Probably adding a description file on each project's root dir would be a good idea, but I don't know atm if that would mess up anything on the VCS side (or how much effort that would take, really).
 

As an example, lorax.git has the description 'Install images creation
tool'.  I think that is more descriptive than 'Project lorax under
git'.  There are likely some git repos with a default description
file, where we'd want to fallback to a more generic '%s project' or
something -- or maybe just fix all of these projects with incomplete
description files.

Well, lorax has a trac page, that means it reads the more complete (theoretically speaking) description, but I understand your point.
 

Anyway, enough rambling.  Thanks for working on this ticket Jorge.

No problems.
 

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