Am 18.11.2013 14:42, schrieb David Sommerseth:
>> I am the maintainer of the python-ethtool package at Arch
Linux and only
>> found out about the new 0.8 release after celebdor pointed me to it
>> (half a year later).
>>
>> There is no official homepage apart from the git repository overview
>> (which changed) and no mentioning of this ML anywhere I know of.
>> Probably I didn't search hard enough, but my point is: This is far from
>> obvious, at least for non-fedora/Red Hat devs.
>>
>> One of the wikis should probably be updated to include the current:
>> - repository
>> - official tarball location
>> - Mailing list
>> - bug tracker (red hat bugs or ML?)
>
> I would say that the bug tracker to use is red hat's bugzilla, probably
> setting Fedora as the OS.
>
>>
>> The wikis I found:
>>
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Python-ethtool
>> (Yes, this is empty, but listed in setup.py as url of the project.)
>> and
>>
https://fedorahosted.org/python-ethtool/
>> which at least points to the correct repository.
>
> Personally I'd find it nice to have the niceties of a modern repo hosting
> site like github, bitbucket, etc.
python-ethtool isn't a big project, and it's not too many users of it.
But I see the interest growing slowly. We initiated project hosting on
fedorahosted.org, with all the required bits and pieces. But haven't
really had to improve the info there.
For, it's far easier to use fedoraproject as I'm required through my job
to have an account there. It have the pieces I consider important: git
repo, wiki, bug-tracker and a mailing list. Okay, it may not look as
fancy as other, but I honestly don't care about that - not for such a
tool like py-ethtool. For me the most important piece a git repository
which is hosted a place which is clearly recognised as a well know F/OSS
actor.
--
kind regards,
David Sommerseth
This is not at all about fedorahosted not being good enough.
I understand that you want to use fedorahosted and don't have any
problem with that. However, there is still no site with information
about where the official repository is, where the official tarballs are
and where to submit bug reports.
https://fedorahosted.org/releases/p/y/python-ethtool/
magically has a python-ethtool-0.9 now, but isn't listed anywhere.
https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/python-ethtool.git/
certainly looks like the official repository to me, but has v0.8 as the
latest version.
In contrary to a while ago this repository is further ahead now:
http://fedorapeople.org/cgit/dsommers/public_git/python-ethtool.git/
Having a version 0.10
Even the fedora packaging page doesn't have a homepage listed that
actually includes the current version:
https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/python-ethtool/overview/
I don't know of any page that could be seen as a starting point to find
information about the repository and downloads. Every new release is
about searching new information in one of the many previously known
places and finding out that the place where the previous release was
available, is not the place where the new release is available.
I understand that this kind of "meta-work" isn't the interesting part,
but coding new releases has much more value when these releases are not
"hidden" and at least packagers have a way to find these.
Making announcements on this Mailing List would also help, but doesn't
replace an official homepage.
So please add more links to one of the fedora wikis
(
https://fedorahosted.org/python-ethtool/ or
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Python-ethtool) and keep that maintained.
None of these is of any use currently.
Happy New Year
JonnyJD