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[The Robman]

Our previous caretakers for the RDFs have gone on a permanent European vacation, so we're looking for a new one.

If you check the RDF folder, there are a ton of RDFs that have been created since the last time the master zip file was updated, so we really need someone to gather them all up and update the zip file. Same story for the maps and images, as they all need to be kept in sync.

I'll let the others define how best to approach this, but for now I'm just looking for a volunteer.

Thanks,
Rob
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[xnappo]

So... This would entail something like:

1. Becoming (more) familiar with the RDF file
2. Reviewing new RDFs and running them through vicky's checker tool
3. Keeping the zip file up-to-date
4. Responding to PM requests to update/check an RDF in a reasonable amount of time (a week?)

If that is all there is to it, I will volunteer - it is the least I can do for all the fun I have had with y'alls work.

I know I go absent for multi-months(years?) at a time - but I lurk well.

xnappo

[vickyg2003]

Xnapo thankyou so much!

The state of the RDF's has really been bothering me.

There are two areas where the RDFAnalysis tool has brought up boatloads of errors.

1) the Protocols section. About 30% of the RDFs have bad variant information in the Protocols section.

2) File Names Case sensitivity. There is a pretty large list of files where the filenames have in the RDF aren't in the same Case as the files on disk. In the Linux environment the files are case-sensitive, so even though things look great in Windows, those users in Linux don't see nearly as many images and maps as the rest of us do.

Let me know if there is anything I can do.
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[xnappo]

So... Assuming I get the job

I will get started this weekend. I have a Linux remote environment set up so I can test that stuff. Also I am pretty good with VB/VBA so I should be able to help with the analysis tool.

I would also move them into the controlremote cvs repository and establish a procedure for maintenance should I ... take a permanent European vacation or something.

xnappo

[The Robman]

Chris, yoo da man!!! Thanks a lot.
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[gfb107]

Ditto
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[mathdon]

Xnappo, while welcoming your appointment I think you should get in touch with WagonMaster (Bill Marr), who started on this task and put considerable effort into it. See this thread. He became unable to spend the time that it needed and offered to step down - see the last post in that thread. I think it was a much more arduous task than he realised when he volunteered. But it would be a pity to lose all the work he put into it. I am sure he has much that he could hand over to you, and you wouldn't be treading on his toes as he has offered to step down.
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[xnappo]

Thanks - I will read through that thread and send him a PM to get up to speed. I definitely am not going to have time to do a complete revamp of all the RDFs or anything - but I will be able to get them centralized and establish a way to fix issues as they come up.

xnappo

[vickyg2003]

xnappo, I saw in another post that you were going to be moving RDF's to source forge.

[gfb107]

Vicky, you are definitely not the average joe!
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[xnappo]

[mathdon]

Please, please, please can we keep at least a copy of the current RDF library, even if it is not the master copy, where it currently is in our file section. I don't think I'm the average joe either, but Sourceforge is a mystery to me. I want users, including me, to be able to post a new RDF as easily as I can now, without needing to delve into this mystery. My only contact with Sourceforge is the unavoidable one I have when getting the latest RM. I would like to keep it that way. It really will put users off from posting new/updated RDFs if they have to jump through hoops to do so, as in: "I don't mind doing the check-in for people some of the time, but would appreciate people learning to do it themselves."
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[xnappo]

[vickyg2003]

I am just concerned with finding the Latest and greatest RDF. I'm running on a slow internet connection and so many problems are caused by not having the latest and greatest RDF and so many of the latest and greatest RDF's have problems.

RM has a lot of uneccessary problems with protocols because of bad variant information. There are 107 OFFICIAL RDF's with at least one incorrect protocol:variant. So anytime a user tries to create an upgrade that happens to hit on that protocol/that remote they will have errors that they are unable to correct without intervention.

I've thought of correcting and submitting them to the RDF area myself, but decided that seeing a list that long nobody would be willing to take on the job.

So at source forge is it just going to be the official zips, with notifications of updates in the forum?
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[xnappo]