jpackage.org website issues
Jeff Bachtel <[email protected]> Tue, 27 Aug 2013 18:05:17 -0400
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.jpackage.general |
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| Message-ID | <CAHahqg0bkVfbvgTaPoELN9ymF3RJ+=Vi4CxOnBXSj=CmrQqgAA@mail.gmail.com> |
I am interested in using jpackage, and when I run up against bugs or deficiencies either filing bugreps or submitting patches. Due to certain bugs with the jpackage.org website and infrastructure itself, the latter is currently nearly impossible. Some outstanding problems: https://www.jpackage.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=REOPENED generates a 404. https://www.jpackage.org/bugzilla.cgi/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=REOPENED generates a 403 but it is unclear whether that is actually the proper new URL for Bugzilla. http://jpackage.org/browser/browse.php?jppversion=6.0 throws PHP errors likely indicating a configuration change on zarb.org, and breaks when packages are selected. https://www.zarb.org/mailman/listinfo/jpackage-discuss generates a 404 (this linked to on http://www.jpackage.org/mlists.php as well as the URL mailman is configured with and puts at the end of email messages to the list), whereas https://www.zarb.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/jpackage-discuss is the actual functional URL. The canonical jpackage mirror at http://ftp.linux.ncsu.edu/pub/jpackage/ is not listed anywhere on the site. This might be an intentional omission, of course. All of the CVS viewer links are 404s currently. Fiddling with the URLs to pull out cgi-bin generates 403, probably due to hosting configuration changes. http://jpackage.org/cvsaccess.php contains a "what the?" statement: "Read access through annonymous CVS will be provided soon, but it is only really useful for string searches. The CVS repository is not used directly for maintaining packages but as a backend storage for the JPP upload script, so there is no reason to manipulate it directly." whereas http://jpackage.org/buildprocess.php goes into how to use CVS to pull down specfiles to build packages. There is still no anoncvs access 7 years after this page was initially constructed. I've used enough software packages over the years that I know how these website/project situations can occur and get worse as time goes on. If JPackage wasn't already tremendously useful please believe that I wouldn't bother with this sort of manual roll-up bug report. As it is, to do my own development and patches I've manually mirrored all of the SRPMS from 6.0, and I'll be extracting specfiles out to use (I'd hate to be considered yet another random whiner, I'm doing what I can). Thanks for your project's packaging efforts and your time reviewing that wall of text, Jeff