Re: [gentoo-dev] missing metadata.xml

[David Shakaryan]

Bryan Østergaard wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 02:08:12PM -0700, Steve Dibb wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> There are more than a few packages with missing metadata.xml in the
>> portage tree.  I've setup my funky little QA website to report on which
>> ones fall in that category, and here is the list right here:
>>
>> http://spaceparanoids.org/gentoo/gpnl/qa.php?q=metadata
>>
>> I've spent the morning fixing up most of them, adding blank metadata.xml
>> to them and assigning maintainer-needed@g.o as the main
>> maintainer, which in hindsight was probably not the best approach (my
>> apologies).
>>
>> Anyway, either way, it would be nice to get the few remaining packages
>> cleaned up, and if one of your packages is on that list, please update
>> or create the metadata.
>>
>> I'll still be going through the rest of them and sorting out which ones
>> were last maintained by a dev that is now retired and continue assigning
>> them to maintainer-needed.
>>
> I think the most important thing about adding "empty" metadata.xml files
> with maintainer-needed as maintainer is that it _changes_ the package to
> be unmaintained by definition (that's what maintainer-needed means after
> all) and that we can't be sure that's actually true unless we spend a
> lot of time examining each package and asking potential maintainers
> if it's unmaintained.

I see what you mean here, but asking potential maintainers doesn't seem 
like too much of a solution, as it would take a lot of time and energy. 
In my opinion, if the package is actually maintained, then it shouldn't 
be hard for the maintainer to fix the metadata, adding himself as the 
maintainer or at least assigning it to a herd.

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