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Polisher features / goals:

• A general purpose library to query upstream and downstream ruby-related resources

  • Upstream: rubygems, bundler, git projects
  • Downstream: koji, distgit, bodhi, errata tool, yum, apt, fedora + more

• Upstream operations:

  • Retrieve versions available via different platforms / distribution mechanisms
  • Retrieve upstream ruby metadata and contents
  • Detect changes / represent those for inclusion in downstream processing

• Downstream operations:

  • Retrieve version information regarding what has been released
  • Retrieve / Update downstream representations of upstream sources
  • Invoke downstream related build/staging tasks to automate as much of process as possible

• Provide a series of cmd-line tools/utilities providing a nice/easy to use interface to access and cross reference data.

• Some of these utilities include:

  • gem_dependency_checker.rb - cross reference & print out gem / gemfile deps against versions in downstream resources
  • git_gem_updater.rb - automates various tedious steps required to update a gem based package
  • ruby_rpm_spec_updater.rb - updates a ruby rpm spec to the specified gem / gemfile
  • Other utilities are available and/or are in development, see the bin/ dir for a complete listing

• Providing staging area to try additional experimental ruby post-processing tasks such as

  • Extraction and conversion of binary and vendored dependencies from ruby projects
  • Ruby based downstream repository management tools (eg bundler gemfile + rpm sources -> yum repo)
  • NCurses and other text-based visualization tools to render the upstream/downstream cross-referencing
  • Integration w/ the rubygems.org web-hooks to automatically launch workflows on upstream pushes
  • Interface w/ image and virt management tools to automatically generate custom working or production environments on upstream releases
  • • more

• Seemlessly integrate with other tools and upstream/downstream systems to automate as much of the developer -> release process as possible