It would be excellent if you could encourage projects without a DOAP file to create one. In fact all top level Apache projects should have one as per our branding requirements [1] which state:
"All projects must provide a DOAP - Description Of A Project - file or entry for both the project itself and all product releases that they make. Follow the guidelines at <http://projects.apache.org/create.html> to make a DOAP file and register it. This will allow the ASF to best showcase all of its projects and products in a variety of ways." Compiling a list of those projects that do not yet have a DOAP file and posting it here will be an excellent contribution to help us help them. Note we provide a web form for Apache projects to create their DOAP at [2] Ross [1] http://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/pmcs.html [2] http://projects.apache.org/create.html On 15 January 2013 09:30, Davide Galletti <davide.galle...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am new to the list; my name is Davide Galletti and I am working on a EEC > funded research project named MARKOS; > > "MARKOS intends to realize the prototype of an automatic service providing > an integrated view > on the Open Source projects available on the web, focusing on functional, > structural and licenses > aspects of the software code released by the projects." > More detail and updates on http://www.markosproject.eu/ > > Within MARKOS I will realize a component called "Crawler" which will be > responsilble for > gathering as much informationon OSS Projects as possible from forges, > metaforges and any > source we might find interesting. The first release is expected in 2013, > and development will > continue till the end of 2014, of course with an OSS license. > I believe I will access information on Apache projects from the list of > DOAP files available here: > https://svn.apache.org/repos/**asf/infrastructure/site-tools/** > trunk/projects/files.xml<https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/infrastructure/site-tools/trunk/projects/files.xml>< > https://svn.apache.org/repos/**asf/infrastructure/site-tools/** > trunk/projects/files.xml<https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/infrastructure/site-tools/trunk/projects/files.xml> > > > I have read from Rich Bowen that not all projects have a DOAP file. > Since, for the above reason, I will be very interested in the completeness > and quality > of this list, I might take the task of checking which projects are lacking > the file or have > it incomplete, create one for them and solicitate the project owner to > complete it. > Of course I would need some help to get started; does it make sense? > > Cheers, > > Davide > > -- Ross Gardler (@rgardler) Programme Leader (Open Development) OpenDirective http://opendirective.com
