[aur-general] AUR Maintenance
I read in the archives that comments were 95% repaired by Firmicus and the copy with a few illegal characters is: /home/francois/aur-20100205-1859.sql.fixed2.xz on a server to which I do not yet have access. Since the comments are not back, I gather there is more to be done. Could I please go through the comments and repair sentences that make sense? i.e. "s/Th#s wor#s for kd#4 but #ot kdemod/This works for kde4 but not kdemod/" I will do this until everything is done or the only sentences left are unintelligible. The other problem is merging this with new comments that have been posted since the update. No one knows a reliable way to do this automatically, correct? And it would require adding countless database entries by hand? I am also prepared to get started on this brute force work. I will have several hours per week to devote to it. Please give me what I need to contribute! Thanks.
I can help out as well, though I am not a trusted user so I wonder how much I can really help. But my offer is there. :) On 2010-04-30, at 10:04 PM, Connor Behan wrote:
I read in the archives that comments were 95% repaired by Firmicus and the copy with a few illegal characters is: /home/francois/aur-20100205-1859.sql.fixed2.xz on a server to which I do not yet have access. Since the comments are not back, I gather there is more to be done.
Could I please go through the comments and repair sentences that make sense? i.e. "s/Th#s wor#s for kd#4 but #ot kdemod/This works for kde4 but not kdemod/" I will do this until everything is done or the only sentences left are unintelligible. The other problem is merging this with new comments that have been posted since the update. No one knows a reliable way to do this automatically, correct? And it would require adding countless database entries by hand? I am also prepared to get started on this brute force work. I will have several hours per week to devote to it. Please give me what I need to contribute! Thanks.
On Fri 30 Apr 2010 22:04 -0400, Connor Behan wrote:
I read in the archives that comments were 95% repaired by Firmicus and the copy with a few illegal characters is: /home/francois/aur-20100205-1859.sql.fixed2.xz on a server to which I do not yet have access. Since the comments are not back, I gather there is more to be done.
Could I please go through the comments and repair sentences that make sense? i.e. "s/Th#s wor#s for kd#4 but #ot kdemod/This works for kde4 but not kdemod/" I will do this until everything is done or the only sentences left are unintelligible. The other problem is merging this with new comments that have been posted since the update. No one knows a reliable way to do this automatically, correct? And it would require adding countless database entries by hand? I am also prepared to get started on this brute force work. I will have several hours per week to devote to it. Please give me what I need to contribute!
Hah. Thanks for your enthusiasm, but it wouldn't be very effective to go through it manually. Most of the scrambled strings are in languages other than English, and it would take waay too much work. I do plan on restoring them, but I haven't had the chance to look into it. I can't say when that will be though. Cheers.
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 6:53 PM, Loui Chang
Hah. Thanks for your enthusiasm, but it wouldn't be very effective to go through it manually. Most of the scrambled strings are in languages other than English, and it would take waay too much work.
I do plan on restoring them, but I haven't had the chance to look into it. I can't say when that will be though.
Cheers.
This is really becoming a great hindrance. The comments on the AUR had a lot of very valuable information on them. It's not like it's a twitter feed of inane babble- it's documentation, Q&A, a changelog, brainstorming and external references. This is hurting me much more than if the wiki was completely nuked. I have PKGBUILDs and other build data in version control, but I don't have any of that other stuff in the AUR comments anywhere. Anything you could do would be a great help here. I would rather 5% of the comments be corrupted or completely deleted because of encoding issues than have all of them missing for another 2 months. Unfortunately, I have no expertise with encoding issues, otherwise I would have immediately offered help at the time. Let us know if there is anything we can help with, at all (besides "stop bugging me!" :) Thanks, Slash
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Connor Behan
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Farhan Yousaf
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Loui Chang
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Slash