[Hamara-devel] Fwd: Misc Developer News (#39)

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Subject: Misc Developer News (#39)
Resent-Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2015 02:43:02 +0000 (UTC)
Resent-From: debian-devel-announce at lists.debian.org
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2015 10:40:38 +0800
From: Paul Wise <pabs at debian.org>
Organization: Debian
To: debian-devel-announce <debian-devel-announce at lists.debian.org>

The news are collected on https://wiki.debian.org/DeveloperNews
Please contribute short news about your work/plans/subproject.

In this issue:
  + Android Tools Team
  + Google Code closing
  + uscan redirector pypi.debian.net
  + Derivatives census update
  + oldoldstable on DDPO

Android Tools Team
------------------

  As part of Debian's project in Google Summer of Code, Hans-Christoph
  Steiner and Markus Koschany be mentoring two students, Kai-Chung Yan and
  Komal Sukhani. We are going to be working on getting the Android SDK and
  tools into Debian, as part of the Android tools[1] team, building upon
  the existing work already included from the Java packaging[2] and Android
  Tools teams. This project is in conjunction with the Java team since
  there is overlap between Android and Java tools, like `gradle`, `maven`,
  etc. Since this work is in Debian, all of the Debian derivatives will
  automatically inherit this work.

  For more info:
  https://guardianproject.info/2015/04/30/getting-android-tools-into-debian/

   -- Hans-Christoph Steiner

  [1] https://wiki.debian.org/AndroidTools
  [2] https://wiki.debian.org/JavaPackaging

Google Code closing
-------------------

  Google Code is closing[3] soon. New project creation is already disabled.
  The site will go read-only on August 24, 2015 and the project project
  hosting service will be closed on January 25, 2016. Tarballs of project
  source, issues, and wikis will be available throughout the rest of 2016.
  There are quite a number of projects in Debian that use Google Code for
  their hosting. Folks who maintain packages whose upstream projects use
  Google Code might want to talk to their upstreams about where they will
  move to and or backup code repositories and other data. Folks might also
  want to talk to their upstreams about using free tools[4] that are
  available for hosting software projects[5].

   -- Paul Wise

  [3] 
http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2015/03/farewell-to-google-code.html
  [4] http://mako.cc/writing/hill-free_tools.html
  [5] https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/LeavingTheCloud#line-209

uscan redirector pypi.debian.net
--------------------------------

  Changes on pypi.python.org removed the support for a directory listing
  that is easy to parse for uscan[6]. Piotr provides now a redirector
  service on pypi.debian.net[7] that serves you a useful listing and the
  matching watch file snippet. Just append the package name to the URL, for
  example http://pypi.debian.net/pyroute2/[8], and follow the watchfile
  link.

   -- Sven Hoexter

  [6] https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/issues/358
  [7] https://wiki.debian.org/Services/pypi.debian.net
  [8] http://pypi.debian.net/pyroute2/

Derivatives census update
-------------------------

  The Debian derivatives census[9] aims to gather information about
  derivatives that could be interesting to Debian and to present[10] that
  data to contributors. Until recently it was previously split into two
  deployments, one general one on alioth.d.o and the patches generation on
  snapshot.d.o, which was private. Recently the alioth deployment has been
  removed and the snapshot.d.o deployment has a web server installed.
  Patches are being generated daily and are available on
  deriv.debian.net[11]. Please consider taking a look at available patches
  when uploading packages. There is also a plan[12] for a patches panel on
  tracker.debian.org that could link to the derivatives patches. Help with
  the patches panel, the census and with derivatives efforts in general is
  needed.

   -- Paul Wise

  [9] https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census
  [10] https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Integration
  [11] http://deriv.debian.net/patches/
  [12] https://bugs.debian.org/779400

oldoldstable on DDPO
--------------------

  DDPO grew the ability to also show oldoldstable (aka squeeze) versions,
  mostly for the benefit of those working on squeeze-lts. To use it, append
  &version=oldoldstable to your DDPO URL, or set it via the usual display
  configuration dialog at the bottom of the page, for example:

 
https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=myon@debian.org&version=oldoldstable

  The display logic is now generalized so it can also exclude the "older"
  dists, e.g. &version=testing will just show testing and later. The
  default is to show oldstable and up.

   -- Christoph Berg

-- 
bye,
pabs

https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise




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