Bug#472199: Any progress on the licensecheck machine-readable output front?

[Francesco Poli]

On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 10:24:19 +0200 Jonas Smedegaard wrote:

[...]
> On 12-08-28 at 10:02pm, Francesco Poli wrote:
[...]
> > In bug #472199 (I am Cc:ing its e-mail address), a number of different 
> > people asked for this feature to be implemented in licensecheck and 
> > you stepped in, expressing the intention to integrate this capability 
> > into licensecheck.
> > This sounds really great! Thanks a lot!
> > 
> > Unfortunately there seems to be no visible progress since August 2010...
> > Is there any well-hidden progress, by chance?!?
> 
> Unfortunately only progress is in my head. :-/

That's definitely well-hidden!   ;-)
I hope you have a good backup strategy for your head...   ;-D

> 
> I have been granted write access to devscript and have followed its 
> mailinglist since back then, but not yet taken time to actually do this 
> work.

Good, so you are ready to start...

> 
> I am still interested in this, and expect to make time for it in the 
> upcoming months.

That's great news, indeed!

>  I have some ideas on how to support both very strict 
> and (as seems most other than myself is interested in) more relaxed 
> scanning.

If I understand you correctly, I think the most important mode is the
"strict" one: each file has to be scanned and classified as accurately
as possible.

> 
> 
> > I am afraid that my Perl knowledge is just a smattering and it is
> > rusty, too... As a consequence, I will probably not be able to help
> > much with the implementation.
> > But I may help with some testing and feedback, if you are interested.
> 
> You very nudging me like here is helpful for me to bump up the priority.  
> So thank you for that!

You're welcome.

> 
> I shall make noise on the bugreport when reaching something concrete to 
> test, so please subscribe to that if you wanna help out.

I've just done so.
Or, at least, I hope I managed to do so: I am not used to subscribing
to bug reports, this is the first time I try...

Thanks for your time!

Looking forward to having something to test.
Bye.


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