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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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> 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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> http://spaceparanoids.org/gentoo/gpnl/qa.php?q=metadata |
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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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> 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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> 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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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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So while I enjoy getting metadata cleaned up etc. I think it's important |
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to think about exactly what we're doing before "fixing" up a lot of |
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packages - in this case 300+ packages. You (all devs!) might even want |
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to ask on -dev ML if it's a good idea before touching up a huge number |
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of packages to make sure you don't change things in subtle, |
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unintentional ways. |
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Anyway, I appreciate you spending time on cleaning up the metadata.xml |
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files even if it might not have been the best idea in hindsight. |
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Regards, |
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Bryan Østergaard |
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