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From: Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: extending project xml to have stuff that the project is working on and collect them as Gentoo current goals
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 18:32:41
Message-Id: 461D287E.6030007@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: extending project xml to have stuff that the project is working on and collect them as Gentoo current goals by Chris Gianelloni
1 Chris Gianelloni wrote:
2 > On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 00:17 +0300, Petteri Räty wrote:
3 >> Chris Gianelloni kirjoitti:
4 >>> On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 23:34 +0300, Petteri Räty wrote:
5 >>>> Then we require this file to be updated
6 >>>> monthly. What do you think?
7 >>> I think Release Engineering would kill you in our off time. This has
8 >>> been brought up before, but some projects just don't have enough going
9 >>> on to update on a regular cycle.
10 >>>
11 >> So you just change the date? I don't think we should require anything
12 >> but acknowledgment that the old data still applies.
13 >
14 > So turn it into one more mundane and pointless task that I am forced to
15 > perform simply because it is a matter of policy? Having to go around
16 > saying "yes, this is still correct" is rather wasteful, is it not? I
17 > know I would have to do this for several projects, all of which are not
18 > the sort to really have updates to publish.
19
20 Seems like a reasonable idea. So many of our webpages are out of date
21 that asking people to check any pages they "maintain" (where's our
22 metadata.xml?) whether they're still current once in a while might work.
23 Adding extra busywork to this by documenting it may not be worthwhile.
24
25 Thanks,
26 Donnie
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