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On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 9:26 PM, Jeroen Roovers <jer@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 23:28:05 +0200 |
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> René 'Necoro' Neumann <lists@××××××.eu> wrote: |
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>> Am 27.03.2011 22:44, schrieb Rich Freeman: |
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>> Well, but you need some way of communicate that certain packages are |
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>> w/o a proper maintainer. Why else should someone step up? I, for |
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>> instance, was quite surprised about the list of m-n packages and |
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>> seeing that quite some packages I use are on that list. I would never |
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>> had a look at it without this thread (or are users nowadays supposed |
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>> to check metadata.xml on a regular basis?). |
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> I remember distinctly that I once publicly proposed to change |
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> <http://packages.gentoo.org/> to actually interpret packages' |
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> <metadata.xml> and displaying its formatted contents on every |
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> <http://packages.gentoo.org/package/CAT/PKG> page (notably because the |
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> site mentioned and still mentions the last committer at the top of the |
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> page, with his or her Gentoo e-mail alias/handle plainly visible, so at |
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> the time I envisioned it to prevent people from addressing the |
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> wrong developers). <metadata.xml> is a mere link on every page and |
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> doesn't invite anyone to dig deeper, when it could be put to better |
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> use. Our bugzilla database already has proper descriptions for every |
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> alias we use, so we could reuse that information to improve |
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> packages.g.o. |
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http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/treecleaners/maintainer-needed.xml |
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> (Only, I cannot now find any trace of such a discussion at all, or even |
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> the bug report I am quite certain I would have filed about this.) |
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> jer |
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