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On 11/24/07, Jose Luis Rivero <yoswink@g.o> wrote: |
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> Hi all: |
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> I've read on the planet the recently included support to document USE |
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> flags in metadata. Seems like it was an idea from flameeyes and cardoe, |
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> discussed on the planet [1][2] and performed by -infra (bug #199788). |
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> While planet is a good medium to share ideas and get contributors, seems to |
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> me like we need a more official way to discuss this kind of 'global' |
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> ideas before make them real. Or at least drop a note on -dev-announce |
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> explaining the new feature and telling devs and users this is now |
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> officially supported. |
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> I'm not asking for an extra overhead of 'bureaucracy' (write specs, |
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> mailling @dev, send to the council, etc.) but a bit more of communication |
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> would be appreciated: |
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Maybe you aren't but I am. It takes all of 20 minutes to write a |
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short GLEP. It takes 5 minutes to write an e-mail telling everyone |
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that you are doing something new before you do it. Thanks for |
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considering everyone in your changes. |
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> Is the feature ready to be used? Is there any kind of documentation |
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> (aside of DTD)? It will replace use.desc? |
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> Thanks. |
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> [1] http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/articles/2007/11/24/proposing-more-use-flag-documentation |
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> [2] http://blog.cardoe.com/archives/2007/11/23/metadataxml-updates-examples/ |
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> Jose Luis Rivero <yoswink@g.o> |
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