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[Spencer Ogden <spencero AT mail.utexas.edu>]

I might be interested in helping to put this together if there is 
interest...

Spencer

On Tuesday 14 January 2003 03:31 pm, David Pradier wrote:
> I proposed something to the sm-users list, some times ago, here is a
> part of it :
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> Is it possible to make an engine on the website www.sourcemage.org to
> propose new spells ?
>
> Let me describe how it could work :
> Somebody with a new spell uploads it to the website, compressed, selects
> in which section(s) it should go, and gives his email address.
> The engine uncompresses it, based on the extension, and puts it in a new
> codex named something like "proposed" ; the tarball is re-calculated and
> available for everybody, just like "test" or "devel" or "stable".
>
> Why is it better than our current system ?
> Currently, we can grab the proposed spells on the mailing-list,
> generally i wait for the official version, only because it's boring to
> go through the process save/uncompress/move before being able to test it
> ; and when i do a system-update, the spell has disappeared !
> And i don't always look for new spells, as a user. And sometimes, i
> think, "wow, it should be cool to test it, but i just haven't the time
> right now" and after, i have forgotten it.
> So, it would mean that every user could test new spells, and so, we
> would have better tests than only the one of the maintainer :-) (i don't
> mean that maintainers make bad test, but every computer is different,
> isn't it ;-) ?) For the maintainers, it would be easier (i think) to see
> and test automatically a spell waiting in their section :-) ; no need to
> parse the mailing-list.
> And we know that sometimes, some spells aren't seen by the maintainer,
> just because mailing-list isn't the best tool for this, i think.
>
> I don't propose to implement this myself, because i wouldn't know where
> to begin.
> Do you think it's a good idea ? Do you think it's hard to implement ?
> What do you think ?
>
> David/day
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> This kind of thing seems relatively easy to do to me... immediate
> features that come to mind is an automatic notification of a section
> maintainer whenever a spell is "proposed" to their section, along with
> the ability for maintainers to "download new spells since their last
> checkout", "download a specific spell", "spell approved for devel
> grimoire" (aka "remove this spell from proposed"), "reject spell" (with
> a comment box for the reason why), etc.  Of course there is an inherant
> security risk as people could use an invalid email address and submit a
> trojan as a spell.
>
> In short, this would be possible to do if people think it would be
> useful. I'm not sure how long it would take me as I'm not sure how much
> free time I would have for this.
>
> (Just brainstorming out loud :)
>
> [jonathan evraire]
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