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On 20:15 Sat 28 Mar , Eitan Mosenkis wrote: |
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> This is only partly Gentoo-related, but Gentoo might still be |
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> interested in it as a project to have under its umbrella: instead of |
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> writing another copy of what Debian is already doing, instead create a |
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> web-based service that aggregates new version data for as many |
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> projects as possible, offering many different options to project |
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> developers for how to make their project's version info accessible |
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> (RSS feed, FTP to be pinged, just letting the developer update the |
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> info for his project manually, etc.) and offering people automatic |
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> email updates whenever a project releases a new version (choose |
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> whether to include alphas, betas, rcs, or only stable, etc.) or get |
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> RSS feeds per project, etc. This could be rather useful for the whole |
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> open-source community, both people who maintain distros and people who |
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> just want to know as soon as their favorite package puts out a new |
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> version. Other features could include having changelogs with the |
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> emails/in the feeds. |
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This is basically DOAP <http://trac.usefulinc.com/doap>. |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie |
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Donnie Berkholz |
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Admin, Summer of Code |
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Gentoo Linux |
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Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com |
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