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bug #53619: add a DOAP (Description of a Project) descriptor to Octave source tree

Submitter:  Mike Miller <mtmiller>
Submitted:  Thu 12 Apr 2018 02:26:06 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  Configuration and Build System Severity:  1 - Wish
Priority:  1 - Later Item Group:  Feature Request
Status:  Fixed Assigned to:  mtmiller
Originator Name:  Open/Closed:  * Closed
Release:  * dev Operating System:  * Any
Fixed Release:  None Planned Release:  None
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Mon 19 Nov 2018 07:53:41 PM UTC, comment #4: 

Taking care of old todos, this is done

https://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/9e5caa6acb00

Mike Miller <mtmiller>
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Sat 10 Nov 2018 03:45:12 PM UTC, comment #3: 

@Mike: Can you go ahead and add the DOAP file to the Octave project and close this report.  I reviewed it back in July and the format seemed fine.

Rik <rik5>
Group administrator
Thu 12 Jul 2018 07:58:08 PM UTC, comment #2: 

Thanks, will take care of this.

Mike Miller <mtmiller>
Group Member
Thu 12 Jul 2018 04:39:00 PM UTC, comment #1: 

@Mike: This sounds like a good idea.  I don't know if the FSF has an opinion on it, but DOAPs are very widely used for free software.

I just went to the Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOAP) and from there I found a link to a DOAP generator (https://crschmidt.net/semweb/doapamatic/).

I looked at the fields in the generator and what you already have in your trial DOAP field and it seems fine to me.

I don't think this upsets anything if you just go ahead and commit it.

Rik <rik5>
Group administrator
Thu 12 Apr 2018 02:26:06 AM UTC, original submission:  

Many free software projects include a DOAP descriptor file in their source tree / source release. DOAP is an XML data format for describing a software project (Description of a Project).

This would only involve adding a static XML file to the Octave source tree and including it in EXTRA_DIST. The intent is that catalogs and aggregators of software projects can pull DOAP records to populate databases of software projects.

I'm attaching my first stab at a basic DOAP file for Octave.

Mike Miller <mtmiller>
Group Member

 

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file #43888:  octave.doap added by mtmiller (1KiB - application/octet-stream)

 

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    2018-11-19 mtmiller StatusPatch Reviewed Fixed
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    2018-07-12 mtmiller Assigned toNone mtmiller
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    2018-04-12 mtmiller Priority5 - Normal 1 - Later
    2018-04-12 mtmiller Attached File- Added octave.doap, #43888

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