On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 8:50 PM, Dan McGee wrote:

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Rémy Oudompheng wrote:

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Hello,

Following an earlier discussion, I have stepped forward as a volunteer to continue namcap maintenance: in my personal clone at  http://projects.archlinux.org/users/remy/namcap.git/ you may find several patches addressing issues reported in FlySpray. I have also tried to update the NEWS file in some sensible way. Can someone have a look at these? I'd also like to know more about the release process of namcap and the main directions of development?

My next goal would be the support for split packages. Thanks Rémy.

I'll take a look in the near future and give you feedback; I'm out of town this week without a lot of time on my hands. I'll also try to fill you in on the typical release steps I've taken for the past few tags and cuts of code. I'll also give you a TODO list I've had in my head for a while of things that would make namcap a much better system overall.

The work you did looks good; no obvious problems seen in any of it. I've actually merged it to master. Release process: * Make changes * Get to a point where there are enough to release * Update setup.py as necessary * `python2 setup.py sdist` * Create tag in git (make sure you use `git tag -a`) * Push tarball to /srv/ftp/other/namcap/ * Rebuild package Future ideas: * Make this a python3 project- since Arch is rather bleeding edge anyway and this is Arch-specific, it is a perfect candidate for moving forward. Some things have already been tweaked, but things like octal literals, etc. need work. * Add a test suite. * Overhaul the way we process rules. Right now, they are done in serial fashion. This makes processing more rules add a lot to the runtime for tarball type rules. It is less noticeable now since we force unzip each package, but try running without the wrapper script. Instead, since most of these simply do something as we iterate over either the file names or file objects, make it callback-based. Namcap would then iterate through the package contents only once, calling the rule callbacks on each object, resulting in a much faster per-package run. * This has been done, I can't remember where though, but making it secure enough to actually run it on every package and PKGBUILD in our repos would be awesome, and then showing this info in a web interface. Looks like it is mentioned here at the bottom: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Namcap You ready to take it over? It's all yours. -Dan

* Make this a python3 project- since Arch is rather bleeding edge anyway and this is Arch-specific, it is a perfect candidate for moving forward. Some things have already been tweaked, but things like octal literals, etc. need work.

+1 for python3. I would be interested to help on this if needed. Stéphane