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Bug 177868

Summary:	Categories pages do not use project-info
Product:	Community	Reporter:	Bjorn Freeman-Benson <bjorn.freeman-benson>
Component:	Website	Assignee:	Nathan Gervais <nathan>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	P3	CC:	mike.milinkovich, nboldt
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Bug Depends on:	134275
Bug Blocks:	179075

Description Bjorn Freeman-Benson

2007-03-16 21:47:41 EDT

We have a standard way for projects to report their meta-data (see http://www.eclipse.org/projects/dev_process/project-status-infrastructure.php). Why do the Categories pages (e.g., http://www.eclipse.org/home/categories/rcp.php) use a different mechanism (an internal Foundation database that is not accessible to the projects) for the same meta-data? 

Unless there is a cron job that reads the project-info meta-data and puts it into the database, having the separate database ensures that (1) the projects cannot update the data on their own and (2) because this new mechanism is not documented anywhere the projects don't know about it and (3) when the projects do update their meta-data, they will be puzzled why those changes don't show up.

Comment 1 Mike Milinkovich

2007-03-22 21:20:54 EDT

This would make more sense to me if *all* of the info showing on the Categories page was included in the project-info. From my quick read, it looks like there are at least a few pieces missing:

* wiki page
* home page
* docs
* download page

Comment 2 Bjorn Freeman-Benson

2007-03-22 22:00:27 EDT

In an attempt to solve (2):
http://www.eclipse.org/projects/dev_process/project-status-infrastructure.php

Comment 3 Mike Milinkovich

2007-03-27 13:30:54 EDT

Nate,

I think you're the one who will have to look at this, correct?

Comment 4 Nathan Gervais

2007-03-27 13:33:52 EDT

Yes this is my bug, i'll have this in place soon.

Comment 5 Bjorn Freeman-Benson

2007-03-27 13:54:01 EDT

Nathan, I think we need to solve bug 134275 first because if we just switch the categories pages to project-info we'll have a problem because (sigh) the projects don't all have complete project-info files. But if we switch to a database first then we (the Foundation) can pre-populate where the projects do not supply information (just as we do for the project home page and download page).

Comment 6 Bjorn Freeman-Benson

2007-04-29 20:23:35 EDT

(In reply to comment #4)
> i'll have this in place soon.

It's been a month, any news on 'soon'?

Comment 7 Bjorn Freeman-Benson

2007-06-07 01:42:14 EDT

(In reply to comment #4)
It's been a bit over two months now - any update on "soon"?

Comment 8 Nathan Gervais

2007-06-07 10:10:40 EDT

With Europa coming up cycles are being eaten at rapidly.  I would expect this to get fixed sometime after the waters calm down.

ETA July 07

Comment 9 Denis Roy

2007-06-21 16:41:49 EDT

Setting the milestone for Q3 -- this is getting real important, so let's get on this after Europa  :-)

Comment 10 Denis Roy

2007-06-25 11:54:44 EDT

*** Bug 194244 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11 Nick Boldt

2007-06-27 10:22:50 EDT

(In reply to comment #10)
> *** Bug 194244 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
> 

See one possible way to implement the XML for project-info.xml in bug 194244, eg., for http://www.eclipse.org/mail/index_topic.php

Comment 12 Bjorn Freeman-Benson

2007-09-21 19:06:31 EDT

Completed.