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From: Thomas Kahle <tomka@g.o>
To: gentoo-science@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-science] Gentoo Science next meeting agenda - 2) metadata
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2010 08:55:13
Message-Id: 20101206085427.GH2734@denkmatte.mittag-leffler.se
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-science] Gentoo Science next meeting agenda - 2) metadata by "Sébastien Fabbro"
1 On 11:44 Sun 05 Dec , Sébastien Fabbro wrote:
2 > Kacper Kowalik wrote:
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4 > > just for the reference
5 > > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2&chap=4
6 > > So we know our options ;)
7 >
8 > The idea behind those tags is to generate easily a decent per package
9 > information page some of the Gentoo packages web site could use, or
10 > even automate version checking with a script parsing those tags,
11 > etc...It would also be nice to force a few tags in our packages, so we
12 > could share our package exploring and save some time if we happen to
13 > fix this particular package bug. We could thing of more tags as well,
14 > such as <testing> to describe a recipe on how to test difficult
15 > packages for stabilization.
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17 +1 for more metadata. The testing idea has been raised by Diego on
18 dev-ml, we could wait and see for the conclusion there.
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25 Thomas Kahle
26 http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/