[csw-maintainers] Introducting uWatch 2

[William Bonnet]

Hi,

I have merged the uWatch2 development branch to gar v2 trunk. This first 
release is fully usable ( which is not a synonym of bug free ;) ).

uWatch is a tool designed to help maintainers to detect the availability 
of new upstream version of the software they are in charge. It can be 
used either as a command line tool, or as a Makefile target (recommended 
use). The following targets are available for packages in GAR :

gmake get-gar-version

     This target displays the version used by GAR

gmake get-uwatch-configuration

     This target displays the uWatch configuration

gmake get-upstream-latest-version

     This target displays the latest version from the upstream site

gmake get-upstream-version-list

     This target displays the list of versions available from the 
upstream site

gmake check-upstream

     This target compares the GAR version to the latest available 
version from the upstream site

gmake upgrade-to-latest-upstream

     This target creates and upgrade branch ( from the GAR version to 
the latest available version from the upstream site )

gmake update-package-version-database

     This target reports information version to the QA database. Unless 
you are running your own version database, it is not useful for you as 
maintainer in your everyday life :)

Documentation is available from http://wiki.opencsw.org/uwatch Please 
don't hesitate report problems and ask for more information or 
documentation improvement.

Version 2 is used by the uWatch bot to gather information about versions 
from GAR and upstream sites. These information are feeding the QA 
database ( http://www-mockup.opencsw.org/qa ). uWatch is available only 
for packages in GAR. QA pages will be pushed to the main web site really 
soon, and data updated daily. Certainly during one of the hacking 
sessions of the coming Winter Camp.

Feedbacks are welcome

cheers
W.

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William                     http://www.wbonnet.net

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