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From: Christian Faulhammer <fauli@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [packagekit] Inviting you to project "PackageMap"
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:27:41
Message-Id: 20090615232740.244fd3cd@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [packagekit] [gentoo-dev] Inviting you to project "PackageMap" by Sebastian Pipping
1 Hi,
2
3 Sebastian Pipping <webmaster@××××××××.org>:
4 > > I am convinced the project will be more viable if people can choose
5 > > their level of contribution. Many developers just won't care enough
6 > > to take the extra hassle.
7 >
8 > Agreed. However, I don't see a huge difference in level of
9 > extra hassle. The most difficult thing is doing who's-the-vendor
10 > research in my eyes atm which is the same at both ends.
11 > Maybe collaborating at a central place can add some fun that
12 > adding "some field I don't really care about" downstream cannot.
13
14 I agree with Petteri here, adding the cpe information into our
15 metadata.xml makes forgetting entry submissions to PackageMap really
16 easy for everyone. Thus automatic extraction of information from your
17 side from metadata.xml files should be one option to gather the
18 information.
19
20 V-Li
21
22 --
23 Christian Faulhammer, Gentoo Lisp project
24 <URL:http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-lisp on FreeNode
25
26 <URL:http://gentoo.faulhammer.org/>

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