Re: Taking over xdg-utils

Simon Lees <[email protected]> Wed, 26 Aug 2020 16:57:26 +0930
Newsgroups	gmane.linux.xdg.devel
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
Hi

On 8/26/20 1:17 AM, Piotr Karbowski wrote:
> On 25/08/2020 16.54, David Edmundson wrote:
>>  >Project looks kind of abandoned and I'd like to pick it up, is there
>> anyone who can pass the access to repository?
>>
>> If you want to pick a project up, don't keep asking for permission. I would 
>> start by reviewing everyone else's patches that are already there and other such 
>> tasks being proactive. You don't need access to do that.
> 
> And how do you see that going? Like, go and review pending merge
> requests, ack them or suggest changes and then... wait with a hope that
> someone with access will actually notice it and grant the access so I
> can actually merge them? Using this logic, my own merge request is
> reviewed by myself, is very simple and sits there for over a year
> already, not a great motivation to go and review something that no one
> is going to merge.
> 
> If there was anyone in the first place who would be willing to do
> anything with the merge requests after they were reviewed, they would
> already have done it.
> 
> Out of frustration I already started rewrite of xdg-utils keeping it's
> interface, in pure Python3, targeting >= 3.7, starting from xdg-open,
> then will switch to another tool. Will be dropping it on github later,
> once at least some UT are written.

I am also interested in this, there are simply to many bugs related to
shell quoting behavior etc that break something else when they get
fixed. Unfortunately I have been moved into a different team at work for
the next few months and don't have alot of time atm.

When I did some initial research into the idea I planned to split the
mime stuff out of pyxdg into a python-mime library and use that as well
as creating a separate python library for things like
desktop_file_to_binary etc Unfortunately I didn't get past the design stage.

While I don't have much time in the next 6 months once you upload the
code i'll happily review it and help test it on openSUSE.

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