MPWA

[livinded]

I've been reading over the code and, aside from a few modifications, there really isn't much there other than the default scaffolding that rails creates for you. I'd definitely use what's there as a base, but it would probably be simpler to simply scaffold everything using a newer version of rails and just porting all of the actual changes to the new code base.
On Apr 6, 2010, at 1:16 AM, Rainer Müller wrote:

> Hello Joe,
> 
> On 2010-04-06 05:29 , livinded wrote:
>> I've been looking over the MPWA project for the GSoC and am
>> interested in working on it. After checking out the code base and
>> attempting to get it up and running to test out, I realized that it
>> was written using Rail 1.x which is almost two major revisions
>> behind. After a number of modifications I was able to get the code
>> base running on 2.3.5 somewhat and was able to actually test it out.
> 
> It is nice that you got so far. As the code is old as you say, you are
> not tied to use ruby on rails or any of the existing code. If you think
> porting to a newer version would be more work than a rewrite, that's
> okay. Propose and use what you think would be the best tools for this task.
> 
>> Looking at the TODO list there in the subversion repo there really
>> didn't seem like there was all that much, featurewise, to do other
>> than add in user/role authorization, commenting, and minor changes to
>> the view. Based on the current code base I see there being two major
>> portions of this project, the first being to update the code base to
>> use a newer version of rails, either 2.x or 3-beta, and secondly
>> adding in new functionality. I know that the code base is fairly old
>> and was wondering what else such as integration with Trac or other
>> systems that MacPorts uses or other features that should be added
>> into it?
> 
> MPWA should be able to be a comprehensive online interface to the ports
> tree. List which ports are available (with a search function of course)
> in a appealing way. It should also include links to tickets filed
> against a port. Maybe it could also have some rating/comment system.
> 
> Decide yourself which features are possible and how. You could compare
> to already existing websites for other distribution systems
> (packages.debian.org, packages.gentoo.org, freshports.org to name a few).
> 
> Rainer
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