MOTU tools: let's do some team-work

If anyonw wants to start up fresh with something like this, I'd like to help with coding it. Particular if we'd use Python.
Although I'm not a MOTU member, I can still be of help perhaps.
Keep me posted anyhow, I check this list frequently...

Cheers!

Andrew Mitchell wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 09:10:33PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>I've been thinking about how things work inside MOTU teams, and I think we
>>really need some common tools. I know some of us already have our own tools.
>>Maybe it's time to merge them in a "motu-tools" package ?
>>
>>Scripts I can think of :
>>
>>- script to generate a list of packages based on recursive-depends or
>>  reverse-recursive-depends, on Debian's 'Packages' file and Ubuntu's
>>  'Packages' file (so we can easily see new packages of interest in Debian)
>>
> 
> Already done
> 
> 
>>- compare versions of packages in Ubuntu and Debian, stating :
>>  - which ones are in Debian and not in Ubuntu
>>  - which ones are newer in Debian than in Ubuntu
>>  - which ones are in Ubuntu and not in Debian
>>  - which ones are newer in Ubuntu than in Debian
>>  - etc
>>
> 
> Already done
> 
> 
>>- extract popcon data for all packages in a list
>>
> 
> Shouldn't be too hard to do
> 
>>- get a status summary for each package in a list :
>>  - version in Debian/Ubuntu
>>  - bugs in Debian's BTS/Malone/Bugzilla
>>  - useful links (Debian's PTS, etc)
>>
> 
> Mostly done
> 
> 
>>I'm willing to maintain this 'motu-tools' package if nobody else steps forward.
>>
>>Any thoughts ?
> 
> 
> As I said on IRC, I've got a number of these things written & in an 
> (old format) bzr repository on my system. I've been trying to spend a little
> time to clean them up & put the branch on tiber (the box which hosts REVU).
> These will certainly be available online during UBZ or around that time.
> 
> 


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