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On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 02:56:49AM -0800, David Shakaryan wrote: |
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> Bryan Østergaard wrote: |
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> >On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 02:08:12PM -0700, Steve Dibb wrote: |
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> >>Hi guys, |
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> >> |
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> >>There are more than a few packages with missing metadata.xml in the |
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> >>portage tree. I've setup my funky little QA website to report on which |
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> >>ones fall in that category, and here is the list right here: |
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> >> |
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> >>http://spaceparanoids.org/gentoo/gpnl/qa.php?q=metadata |
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> >> |
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> >>I've spent the morning fixing up most of them, adding blank metadata.xml |
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> >>to them and assigning maintainer-needed@g.o as the main |
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> >>maintainer, which in hindsight was probably not the best approach (my |
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> >>apologies). |
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> >> |
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> >>Anyway, either way, it would be nice to get the few remaining packages |
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> >>cleaned up, and if one of your packages is on that list, please update |
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> >>or create the metadata. |
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> >> |
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> >>I'll still be going through the rest of them and sorting out which ones |
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> >>were last maintained by a dev that is now retired and continue assigning |
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> >>them to maintainer-needed. |
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> >> |
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> >I think the most important thing about adding "empty" metadata.xml files |
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> >with maintainer-needed as maintainer is that it _changes_ the package to |
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> >be unmaintained by definition (that's what maintainer-needed means after |
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> >all) and that we can't be sure that's actually true unless we spend a |
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> >lot of time examining each package and asking potential maintainers |
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> >if it's unmaintained. |
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> |
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> I see what you mean here, but asking potential maintainers doesn't seem |
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> like too much of a solution, as it would take a lot of time and energy. |
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> In my opinion, if the package is actually maintained, then it shouldn't |
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> be hard for the maintainer to fix the metadata, adding himself as the |
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> maintainer or at least assigning it to a herd. |
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> |
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I completely agree that adding metadata.xml files is easy for the |
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maintainers and should be done. What I'm objecting to is randomly adding |
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metadata.xml files to packages without any idea if the added files are |
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actually correct. If you can't solve the problem properly you should |
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probably stop to think about a proper solution instead of just taking |
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the easy (but quite possible wrong) solution. |
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Regards, |
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Bryan Østergaard |
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