[Clipart] HASH bug: diagnosed (at least partly)

[Jon Phillips]

On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 12:02 -0400, Jonadab the Unsightly One wrote:
> Matthew Gates <matthew at porpoisehead.net> writes:
> 
> > I have some perl expertise, and I'm more than happy to help.  The
> > big question as usual is where to start.
> 
> Always good to have help on board :-)
> 
> Probably the first place to start is to get familiar with using
> SVG::Metadata, since almost everything we do involves that in one way
> or another.  The version on the CPAN right now still has the HASH bug
> we're in the process of fixing, but that's an implementation issue --
> the POD that explains how to use the module is good.
> 
> > *  Is there some documentation of what is done during the 
> >    release process?   How are the tools invoked, and for what
> >    purpose?
> 
> Yes.  Here:
> 
> http://openclipart.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ReleaseProcedure
> 
> However, for this release, because of the HASH bug that we've just
> figured out, we also should repair the incoming files from pre-0.13
> and pre-0.14, as well as the current incoming ones, based on the
> information in the upload log.  Due to this, the first five steps are
> different this time from usual.  I'm working on two scripts for doing
> this (one that just gets the relevant info from the log, and the
> other that uses that info and actually does the repairs).
> 
> The parts of the release process after step 5 are exactly as
> documented in the Release Procedure, though, and hopefully next
> release we can get back to "normal", such as that is.
> 
> Oh, and the 0.14 tools are obsolete, which leads back to your next
> question...
> 
> > *  Is there public access to the CVS?
> 
> I think this was discussed recently in another thread, and as I recall
> the answer was that anonymous CVS access wasn't working before but is
> supposed to be now.  I'm going on memory off the top of my head, though.

Yes, anon works now: http://openclipart.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?CVS

Jon

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