[Fedora-infrastructure-list] Quick project for doc's

[Mike McGrath]

Throwing this out there for anyone interested.  Karsten (quaid) has
requested a script that will compare the packages between two
releases.  Below is a quick IRC chat we had.  I've been busy with
other stuff so I won't be able to get to it right away.  The idea of
coming to us is maintainability.  Whatever we end up with will end up
in CVS and maintained by us so anyone out there that's good with
Perl/Python/XML sign up.  Don't take it if you don't have time to do
it, I already did that :)  Whoever wants it go ahead and reply to the
list so everyone knows, and add it to:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Schedule

If you need any help let me know and I'll point you in the right direction.

       -Mike


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   [15:16:54]  * quaid gets an example
   [15:17:36]  <quaid>
http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc5/#sn-PackageChanges
   [15:18:06]  <quaid> and someone did help with that list, which I
just put into a <screen> block
   [15:19:30]  <quaid> so, you can see a bit of the package info in
there, and the designation of if it is coming in or out.
   [15:20:11]  <quaid> naturally, it would be cool for it to say what
happened to a package leaving, such as going to Extra, but that
doesn't seem doable
   ... that info isn't stored anywhere to extract.
   [15:20:24]  <quaid> so, here is the need, in cascading order:
   [15:20:29]  <mmcgrath> k
   [15:20:31]  <quaid> 1. treediff -> a nice list
   [15:20:39]  <quaid> 2. nice list -> XML list
   [15:21:06]  <quaid> 3. a nice script that can be run somewhere to
let a clueless editor do this easily
   [15:21:10]  <quaid> </>
   [15:21:49]  <quaid> we want to put in the set for each test, etc.,
so it shows the package changes incrementally in that way.
   [15:23:25]  <mmcgrath> I got'cha.
   [15:23:45]  <mmcgrath> So what of that stuff would you like the
infrastructure team to do?
   [15:26:37]  <mmcgrath> quaid: I think I'm following you now, you
just really want some scripts to do all of this stuff automatically
and then stick the
   results somewhere for you guys to do some final touches.
   [15:27:34]  <quaid> mmcgrath: right, although the results could be
a 100% valid XML document (header declaring it as e.g. a 'section'),
and we really
   don't need to anything more than XInclude it.
   [15:28:45]  <quaid> also, a reason for turning to Infrastructure v.
cooking it up ourselves in maintainability ... we want something that
is part of
   the formal process and has some support so when e.g. treediff or
something changes, the smarts are there to fix it. :)
   [15:29:57]  <mmcgrath> I don't think that will be too much of a
problem. We can at least have SOMETHING to you soon. you'll probably
have to get back
   to me a few times about how to fine tune it