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Re: guildhall status
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Andreas Rottmann |
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Re: guildhall status |
Date: |
Mon, 25 Jul 2011 20:53:54 +0200 |
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Andy Wingo <address@hidden> writes:
> Hi!
>
> An update on the guild-hall.
>
> On Fri 15 Jul 2011 13:55, Andy Wingo <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> git clone git://gitorious.org/~wingo/dorodango/guildhall.git
>
> It is still here, with lots of activity, mostly administrative. It can
> now be installed, has minimal docs (from dorodango), and passes
> distcheck. I trimmed dependencies and otherwise folded things under the
> (guild ...) namespace.
>
> Also it is the (guild ...) namespace right now -- I am having trouble
> with metaphors. It seems like the guild-hall package doesn't actually
> install the guild hall, more like it gives access to guild halls that
> might be on the internet. Anyway, something to figure out. I think
> that the right answer will come once I move the commands down from under
> "guild hall" -- so "guild update" instead of "guild hall update".
>
Yeah, maybe a "hall" is what dorodango calls (in its somewhat
old-fashioned way ;-)) a "repository".
>> Next up:
>>
>> 1) Check status of dorodango functionality.
>> 2) Fix things that don't work.
>> 3) Profit?
>> 4) Start thinking about hosting and accounts and UX and stuff.
>
> I still haven't made much progress on the first three, but as regards
> the last:
>
>> I will see if I can get work to sponsor a server that we can use, and
>> see if we can get it aliased to guildhall.gnu.org -- unless someone else
>> would like to provide the server. It would be nice to have root on that
>> server, FWIW. It could be a VM.
>
> Igalia did kindly offer, but Ludovic made the good point that we should
> try the FSF first, and they do seem to be able to host a VM for us, so
> we will probably use the FSF.
>
> But beyond hosting the bundles and available.scm, I am still not clear
> on what guildhall.gnu.org should offer. It should probably have a
> facility for submitting packages, along with a GPG keyring. Perhaps it
> should run tests on the whole guildhall archive every so often, for
> consistency and also for style perhaps. Perhaps it should host
> documentation. Who knows!
>
I've been hacking on two things in this general area:
- A Scheme script to allow updates to a repository, verifying uploaded
packages (from a local directory) against a GPG keyring using detached
signatures (using gpgv(1) for signature verification).
- A web interface somewhat similiar to <http://packages.debian.org>,
based on SSAX and the ocelotl libsoup-based HTTPd. Perhaps I will
implement the ocelotl HTTPd API on top of Guile's webserver -- this
would allow code to be shared quite seamlessly.
I can push both, if there's interest, but the web interface is in its
very early stages ATM.
Regards, Rotty
--
Andreas Rottmann -- <http://rotty.yi.org/>
- Re: guildhall status, (continued)