We Need One - Fwd: DOAP

[Dave Fisher <da...@comcast.net>]

HI Andrea,

We need to fill out a project DOAP file in order to be listed on www.apache.org on the bottom left.

Regards,
Dave

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Shane Curcuru <as...@shanecurcuru.org>
> Date: January 2, 2013 5:28:58 PM PST
> To: general@incubator.apache.org
> Subject: Re: DOAP
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> 
> DOAP files are required for all TLPs, per the Branding policy:
> 
>  http://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/pmcs
> 
> DOAP files are used to autogenerate the projects listing site:
> 
>  http://projects.apache.org/indexes.html
> 
> DOAP files are the best way we have currently to ensure we have a single, simple and machine-parseable list of all software projects available at the ASF.  We currently under-utilize this: it would be nice if projects had more detailed DOAPs that we could entice people to create interesting visualizations of all Apache projects.  It should also be linked to more, so that newcomers to the ASF have an easier way to find all the different software technologies that Apache projects have to offer to the world.
> 
> From the brand perspective, DOAPs are required so the ASF can track all formal TLP projects and major software products that our projects ship (among other reasons, so we can one day auto-generate our list of trademarks).  DOAPs should also have sufficient information about software downloads available so that if someone does write a crawler to inspect software products, they'll get useful information.
> 
> It would be nice if projects kept DOAPs up to date with all new releases, etc., but I personally don't have the effort available in the near future to push on that area.  What's more important is ensuring all TLPs have at least a basic DOAP that's checked in and reflected at projects.a.o
> 
> We really need to explain this more clearly in the incubator docs, and make it clear that having a DOAP checked in is part of the branding checklist that is required to complete before graduation.  I.e., we should ensure that podlings meet the Project Branding Requirements before they go to graduate.
> 
> - Shane
> 
> 
> On 1/2/2013 5:08 AM, Christian Grobmeier wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Onami is not listed below, but we have a Doap file (which needs some
>> maintenance :-)
>> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/onami/committers/doap_Onami.rdf
>> 
>> Three questions, because I am not so familiar with Doap files.
>> 
>> 1) do we have to add them manually to:
>> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/infrastructure/site-tools/trunk/projects/files.xml
>> 
>> 2) On onami we maintain several independent components. Should we
>> maintain different doap files (one for each component), like it seems
>> to be done by Commons?
>> 
>> 3) Should the doap file become part of the release?
>> 
>> thanks!
>> Christian
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 1:09 AM, Benson Margulies <bi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi there.
>>> 
>>> In the process of cleaning up photark, I noticed that very few
>>> incubating projects have DOAP files.
>>> 
>>> That is, I looked at
>>> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/infrastructure/site-tools/trunk/projects/files.xml.
>>> 
>>> If that page is stale and DOAP-i-ness happens elsewhere, someone
>>> please fill me in and excuse this noise.
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Re: We Need One - Fwd: DOAP

[Andrea Pescetti <pe...@apache.org>]

On 03/01/2013 Andrea Pescetti wrote:
> Dave Fisher wrote:
>> We need to fill out a project DOAP file in order to be listed on
>> www.apache.org on the bottom left.
> OpenOffice will soon be displayed at http://www.apache.org/ (bottom
> left); or at least, we now have a valid DOAP file at
> http://openoffice.apache.org/doap_openoffice.rdf

By the way, as Infra explained to me, DOAP and homepage are unrelated.

So the DOAP file is working and allows correct listing, for example, 
here: http://projects.apache.org/indexes/alpha.html#O

But the bottom-left region of the http://www.apache.org/ homepage takes 
its content from a static hard-coded block that must be edited 
accordingly, with no relation to the DOAP files. I've now changed it and 
OpenOffice is listed correctly.

Regards,
   Andrea.

Re: We Need One - Fwd: DOAP

[Andrea Pescetti <pe...@apache.org>]

Dave Fisher wrote:
> We need to fill out a project DOAP file in order to be listed on
> www.apache.org on the bottom left.

Thanks, this was already reported by khirano while the migration was not
completed yet, so it was in the list of pending changes at
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Graduation+Infrastructure+Changes
...
Well, now it isn't pending any longer!

OpenOffice will soon be displayed at http://www.apache.org/ (bottom 
left); or at least, we now have a valid DOAP file at 
http://openoffice.apache.org/doap_openoffice.rdf

Regards,
   Andrea.