Motutools status update

On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 03:43:26PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> What is motutools ?
> ===================
> motutools is a package providing lots of small scripts useful to MOTUs
> and other people interested in improving the universe's quality.
> Currently, it particularly targets scripts dealing with lists of
> packages (all software written in ruby, all science-related software),
> allowing the user to get a global view of the packages it cares about.
> But the scope of motutools might be larger in the future.

This sounds great!

> The motutools package provides /usr/bin/mts (mts as in MotuToolS).
> This executable is a wrapper for a lot of other small scripts which
> reside in /usr/share/motutools. Those scripts can be run directly, but
> it is easier to run them through mts. 

This seems to be a new trend, I heared from Anthony Towns blog that he
intends to go with dak using this approach ;)
 
> More info is available on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTUTools
> 
> motutools and motu-tools (with a dash): what's the difference ?
> ===============================================================
> motu-tools is a set of scripts written by Reinhard Tartler,
> Stephan Hermann and others. Those scripts (lpbugs.py, lpmerge.py) aims
> at easing the merge process. At some point, they might (or not) be
> merged into motutools. This hasn't been discussed yet. 

Well, I started to write that python script because we badly needed
something to deal with 600+ merges. Currently, we have done over 400
merges in less than 2 weeks, iirc. :) ROCK ON!

I'd have no problems in having them in the same package.

> Current status
> ==============
> * waiting for friendly reviewers on REVU ;)
> * can already do interesting stuff[0], but need comments and ideas
> for other scripts.
> 
> [0] http://ox.blop.info/bazaar/rubyversionslist.html (see also the
> example on the wiki page)

Wow. This list really really rocks! But if I understand correctly, it
is only about ruby related packages, right? How big would that table be
with all packages in ubunut? 

How often is your page regenerated?

I still didn't really review your package yet. My main problem with it
is that it is written in ruby, and I'm not really comfortable in
reading ruby. Nearly all scripts we have written for ubuntu universe
are written in python. Since nearly every MOTU knows python, it is
easier to bugfix and adapt these script. 

I'd really like to hear opinions from other motus, too.

 

regards,	
	Reinhard