Re: git.gnome.org/cgit categories are wrong

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 17:52 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 11:58 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 11:42 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > > This page
> > > http://git.gnome.org/cgit/
> > > groups modules into sets, apparently using the names of GNOME release
> > > sets:
> > > http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointTwentyseven/#head-faec756e39096a1772e9897887461f7d11c4fb06
> > > 
> > > But the contents of those sets are wrong.
> > > For instance:
> > > - clutter is not part of the GNOME Platform release set.
> > > - gtkmm is not part of the GNOME Platform. It is part of the Platform
> > > Bindings. Likewise other *mm modules.
> > > 
> > > I'm sure there are other errors.
> > > 
> > > This could be very misleading.
> > 
> > Probably due to my bug:
> > 
> > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-infrastructure/2009-April/msg00209.html
> > 
> > It was fixed, but IIRC the extractor is only run when
> > a commit is made that affects the DOAP file.  So dummy
> > commits would probably fix it.
> 
> So you mean that it's, for instance, this 
> <category
> rdf:resource="http://api.gnome.org/doap-extensions#bindings"; />
> in the clutter-gtkmm DOAP file that's causing it to show up in the wrong
> section?
> 
> But how do I know what sections may be used. Can I just invent
> "bindings-extra"?

To answer, myself, the categories are listed in this XML file, also
mentionded in the above snippet:
http://api.gnome.org/doap-extensions#bindings

However, this seems to assume that everything in git.gnome.org is in an
official GNOME release set.

> > But I think Owen had a way to rerun them all without
> > having to do dummy commits, which is far nicer than
> > cluttering our revision history.
> 
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