On Sun, 1 Nov 2026 at 16:39, Dave Fisher <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On Oct 31, 2026, at 5:27 PM, sebb <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Sat, 31 Oct 2026 at 19:01, Dave Fisher via dev > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> A couple of notes to add here: > >> > >> ATR could provide derived DOAP files in the catalog if asked. > > > > It would be useful to be able to fetch individual entries, rather than > > having to download the combined catalog. > > Also, the release data section is going to grow and grow, and is not > > needed by all consumers, so it would be useful to be able to exclude > > that. > > If the release section only has active releases this will only be bad if the > project is not archiving releases. There are a few that don’t.
At present, even releases for Attic projects are included. There are nearly 250,000 release entries for 1,500 projects. In the case of DOAPs, there was no expectation that archived releases would be removed. If the release catalog is intended to replace DOAPs, what happens to the archived releases? > > It might be better to provide the release data as a separate download. > > i.e. one or more downloads for the largely static data, and a separate > > set for the ongoing release data. > > We are publishing CLE documents in the catalog about a project’s release > lifecycle: > https://ecma-international.org/publications-and-standards/standards/ecma-428/ > > > > >> We should probably make sure that we have an agreed mechanism for > >> maintaining both Categories and Languages lists. > > > > Also it might be useful to include a notice/comment in the file with > > details on where to maintain the source data. > > We may have a feature gap which the tooling team will discuss next week. There are several errors I noticed in the data - where is this held? And where are changes recorded? > Best, > Dave > > > > >> Best, > >> Dave > >> > >>> On Oct 31, 2026, at 9:47 AM, Andrew Wetmore <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> > >>> Hi, Rich: > >>> > >>> Can you add ActionScript to the code categories, and UI to the 'what kind > >>> of problems do you enjoy working on'? I am unable to make either Flex or > >>> Royale appear in the search process. > >>> > >>> a > >>> > >>> > >>> Andrew Wetmore > >>> Assistant VP, Marketing and Publicity, The ASF <https://apache.org> > >>> Editor-Writer, Infra team, The ASF > >>> > >>> Editor, moosehousepress.com > >>> > >>> > >>> On Sat, Oct 31, 2026 at 8:27 AM Rich Bowen <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> > >>>> On Fri, Oct 30, 2026, 19:56 sebb <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> On Fri, 30 Oct 2026 at 22:09, Rich Bowen <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>>>> > >>>>>> On Fri, Oct 30, 2026, 17:44 sebb <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> I had not realized that ATR metadata included categories and > >>>>> programming languages etc as per the DOAPs. > >>>>> In which case I agree, the DOAPs could be dropped if not otherwise > >>>> needed. > >>>>> > >>>> > >>>> Yes, ATR initially loaded their data from those DOAP files, but do not > >>>> continue to reference them unless you explicitly make a reference to them > >>>> in your asf.yaml file. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>> However, it requires a login to even view the data. > >>>>> Also the DOAPs include the data in a single file, whereas it looks > >>>>> like ATR only exposes the data via the HTML page. > >>>>> > >>>> > >>>> I'm pulling it from the projects.json file that they publish. > >>>> > >> > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
