On Wed, 04 Mar 2009 04:01:36 +0200
Mart Raudsepp <leio@g.o> wrote:

> I'm collecting ideas from the wider development and contributing
> community on how to help maintainers and contributors get work done
> quicker, or rephrased - how to get more done in the limited time we
> have.
> 
> This basically means ideas for tools, scripts, or functionality in
> some hypothetical centralized maintainer helper website or GUI/CLI
> program that would help save time in taking care of some of the
> gruntwork that gets done by maintainers right now manually or by
> scripts that don't get shared and re-used and generalized as much as
> they could.
> 
> Then afterwards I can sort through the suggestions/ideas, try to make
> a summary and arrange some of them to actually happen.

One tool I used a lot before metadata.xml USE flags sprung up
everywhere was metagen (in the tree under apps-portage), written by
pythonhead.  For anyone who hasn't used it, it's a commandline util
written in python (surprise!) for generating metadata.xml.  You can
give it a herd, maintainer name/email, maintainer description, package
description, etc., and it will hock out a xml loogie for you.  I've
been meaning to update it for USE flags (and whatever else we're
stuffing into xml these days) as a learn-python project, but like all
my learn-* projects it's never gotten anywhere.  Maybe someone with the
requisite skills and boredom level might be interested in poking at it.


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