Although my progress in adding new features is not too fast (hint: patches and help is welcome), I'm quite happy with the progress of deb.li. As mentioned on my last post on debian-devel@l.d.o, I've spent some time to migrate it to the new, but very well written microframework Flask, which is based on Werkzeug, the probably most advanced WSGI utility module. The migration also allowed me to clean up several pieces of messy code which were necessary to work around some issues in python-bottle.

Also I've started to bring the layout and CSS into a nice shape. The templates are finished already, just a bit CSS is missing now.

Last but not least - the ciabot git script in the example clients is finished and used in a few git based projects on alioth.debian.org now. Just link /var/lib/gforge/chroot/home/users/bzed/godebian-client/ciabot.py to hooks/update and set your CIA project name by running git config hooks.cia-project your-project-name.

As usual - comments, bugreports and patches are welcome!

After several other Debian developers convinced me that a ShortURL service, which is under control of a Debian Developer would be useful for them, I've spent some time to write the necessary code for it. And if it will be used regulary, I'll ask DSA if they want to host it on a proper machine.

So I'm happy to announce the public beta test of deb.li (also available under go.debian.net)! Please note that neither the content of the pages nor the CSS is finished...

As this should not become just another random, spammer-attracting ShortURL service, I will not provide a web based form to add new URLs. Instead new URLs have to be added via a simple JSON-RPC based interface. Other ways to add new URLs will be added on request (or by sending patches ;)), at least an email-gateway similar to db.debian.org is planned.

The small piece of documentation which exists so far is available at wiki.debian.org/deb.li And if you want to give it a try now, log into alioth.debian.org and have a look into

/var/lib/gforge/chroot/home/users/bzed/godebian-client

I hope it will be useful - comments, bugreports and patches are welcome!