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[David Pradier <pradierdavid AT yahoo.fr>]

Well, i'm interested, for one :-D

David

On Wednesday 15 January 2003 02:01, Spencer Ogden wrote:
> 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 :
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >-----------------
> >
> > 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
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >-
> >
> > 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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