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From: "Marijn Schouten (hkBst)" <hkBst@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Improving developer/user communication (was Re: net-im/pidgin protocols)
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 09:39:08
Message-Id: 46A081CE.5060404@gentoo.org
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4 Robert Buchholz wrote:
5 > On Thursday, 19. July 2007 22:39, Jeroen Roovers wrote:
6 >>> Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote:
7 >>>> Associate an irc-channel with each package.
8 >> Associate how? Sounds like a lot of work at the least and a lot of
9 >> cruft at the worst.
10 >
11 > It could be included in the herds.xml:
12 >
13 > <herd>
14 > <name>kde</name>
15 > <email>kde@g.o</email>
16 > <description>KDE and related packages</description>
17 > <irc>irc://irc.freenode.net/#gentoo-kde</irc>
18 > <irc>irc://irc.freenode.net/#gentoo-desktop</irc>
19 > <maintainer>
20 > <email>caleb@g.o</email>
21 > </maintainer>
22 > ...
23 > </herd>
24 >
25 > This way, it would not cruft any packages. Still for packages where a
26 > certain group of people maintain, it would show where to find them and
27 > other users.
28 >
29 > Where could it be displayed to users? I mean, herdstat of course, but
30 > somehow the info would have to reach Joe User, too.
31
32 I was thinking of including it in the info that is spit out when you search
33 for a package, for example:
34
35 eix -e pidgin
36 * net-im/pidgin (#gentoo-pidgin, #gentoo-desktop)
37 Available versions: (~)2.0.0 (~)2.0.1 (~)2.0.2 {avahi bonjour cjk crypt
38 dbus debug doc eds gadu gnutls groupwise gstreamer gtk krb4 meanwhile msn
39 ncurses networkmanager nls perl prediction qq sasl silc spell ssl
40 startup-notification tcl tk xscreensaver zephyr}
41 Homepage: http://pidgin.im/
42 Description: GTK Instant Messenger client
43
44 Marijn
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