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From: Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: Re[2]: [gentoo-dev] maintainer-wanted ebuilds which are tagged REVIEWED
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 14:56:02
Message-Id: 1126623154.23324.9.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net
In Reply to: Re[2]: [gentoo-dev] maintainer-wanted ebuilds which are tagged REVIEWED by Jakub Moc
1 On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 14:08 +0200, Jakub Moc wrote:
2 > 13.9.2005, 13:39:10, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
3 >
4 >
5 > > I know that this is automatically generated, but can we either change
6 > > the bug subjects or figure out some way to add proposed categories to
7 > > these? I think changing the summary should suffice. For the ones with
8 > > categories, I can pretty much figure out what they are. For the ones
9 > > without, I have no clue and have to look at the bug to determine if I
10 > > would even be interested in it.
11 >
12 > Uhm, if the ebuild submitter does not choose a category, then we'd have to
13 > change the subject ourselves (and sometimes I'm not even remotely sure into
14 > which category would the particular ebuild fit).
15
16 Try asking the submitter? *grin*
17
18 Here's a good example. If I submitted an ebuild for "nwn" what would
19 you think it might be? What if I submitted it as "games-rpg/nwn"
20 instead? Now, a category isn't *required* of there's a decent
21 description (such as the "gkrellm plugin" description shown as an
22 example). The point being that nobody is going to be able to determine
23 what some of these packages are without some serious investigation, as
24 they tend to have cryptic names.
25
26 --
27 Chris Gianelloni
28 Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager
29 Games - Developer
30 Gentoo Linux

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Re: [gentoo-dev] maintainer-wanted ebuilds which are tagged REVIEWED Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>