Re: [gentoo-dev] Pinboard of outdated ports

[Tom Martin]

On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 12:47:51AM +0200, Johannes Weiner <hnaz@××××××××××××.de> wrote:
> On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 08:46:51PM +0100, Tom Martin wrote:
> > On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 07:11:38PM +0200, Johannes Weiner <hnaz@××××××××××××.de> wrote:
> > >   * More staff needed
> > >     Despite the autodeletion of uptodate packages there has to be
> > >     someone attending the list. Remove real spam or uptodate packages
> > >     where the targetversion is principally right but not in the correct
> > >     format, so the autodeletion doesn't match.
> >
> > How does it fit in with metadata.xml, and the maintainers and herds
> > listed therein?
>
> I don't get the context. Why metadata.xml? And why maintainers and herds
> listed?

Well, if this just creates an entry to the list with no mention of the
email address of the maintainer, if given in metadata.xml, then it's
pretty pointless in my opinion as no-one but the maintainer could/should
bump software unless you've got a go-ahead from the maintainer or there
are exceptional circumstances.

My request is that when a new entry is added to the list, the software
used checks the package's metadata.xml and includes the herd and
maintainer on the list. If there is a maintainer specified, it sends an
email to the maintainer.

Maybe it would be better to tell maintainers to just subscribe to
projects on freshmeat?

Hope that makes sense now,
Tom

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