[py3porters-devel] Pylons and snapshot.debian.org

Justin A Ryan bitmonk at icloud.com
Sat Apr 18 20:34:10 UTC 2015


As I suspected, the guts of the actual archive is mostly dynamic routes.  It looks like a simple app, obviously if original authors / past maintainers want to help, that would be awesome.

> On Apr 18, 2015, at 11:19 AM, Matt Singleton <matt at xcolour.net> wrote:
> 
> I'm digging around the code a bit here: http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/mirror/snapshot.debian.org.git/
> 
> Don't see anything in the bug tracker about moving away from Pylons. I'm going to reach out to the maintainer(s) to see how they'd like to be involved in the project.
> 
> Matt
> 
>> On Apr 18, 2015, at 2:03 PM, Justin A Ryan <bitmonk at icloud.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I’m familiar with Pyramid (formerly Zope) and would be willing to look into this.
>> 
>>> On Apr 18, 2015, at 10:59 AM, Matt Singleton <matt at xcolour.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> Looking through the lovely SVG, I noticed that snapshot.debian.org metapackage relies on Pylons, which seems really unlikely to get a py3 port given that it's in maintenance mode and all the active development is happening on Pyramid now.
>>> 
>>> I wonder if the snapshot maintainers already have any plans underway to migrate to a maintained web framework? I've worked with Pylons before, but I've never done a Pyramid migration. My understanding is that it amounts more or less to a rewrite.
>>> 
>>> Matt
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