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Re: HTML/CGI volunteer solicited
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: HTML/CGI volunteer solicited
- From: Enoch Wu <ewu at eskimo dot com>
- Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 20:02:01 -0800
- References: <20010327214215.A27308@redhat.com>
- Reply-To: Enoch Wu <ewu at eskimo dot com>
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 09:42:15PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> I'd like to have some kind of web-based automated method for uploading
> packages to sources.redhat.com.
>
Geez, I wish I had known enough about CGI. My perl is pretty dusty by now.
My Javascript & HTML are in a better shape but ...they cannot be used
to upload software. Well, there may be smaller task I can do to help - as long
as someone else serves as the Web architect.
> Basically, I want to have as many contributors as possible but I'm
> getting kind of uncomfortable with the thought of giving new accounts to
> people on sources.redhat.com.
>
That's a reasonable position to hold.
> So, what I'd like is some kind of web form which allows you to upload
> the requisite tar balls and which has a form for filling out text which
> will be sent to cygwin-announce.
>
> The form would be password controlled. I should be able to add a new
> person fairly easily and the password should be automatically, randomly
> generated.
>
> The form should also have text for filling out mail to cygwin-announce
> which fills in part of a template.
>
> The uploaded files would go to a staging area and email would be sent
> to cygwin-apps@cygwin.com with the information entered on the web page,
> it should also include a 'tar vtf' listing of the uploaded tar files.
> Then a person with "administrator" access (i.e., me, Corinna, DJ, etc.)
> would be able to approve or deny the submission by clicking on another
> web form and specifying an administrator password. There should also
> be an opportunity at this point for editing the announce text.
>
> The above sounds like a lot of work but I'm not really a wonderful
> web guru, so I don't know. Is anyone interested in doing something
> like this? I can probably offer a Red Hat tee-shirt for the deal.
>
> I could possibly even offer a Cygwin tee-shirt if I still have one
> of those sitting around somewhere.
>
> Please respond to cygwin-apps if you are interested. I think that
> something like the above will greatly lower the barrier to being a
> cygwin contributor.
>
> cgf
>