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From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Documentation explaining metadata.xml to users wrt bugs?
Date: Sat, 01 May 2004 21:10:35
Message-Id: 200405012310.28359.pauldv@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Documentation explaining metadata.xml to users wrt bugs? by Georgi Georgiev
1 On Saturday 01 May 2004 20:16, Georgi Georgiev wrote:
2 > maillog: 01/05/2004-19:20:02(+0200): Sven Vermeulen types
3 >
4 > Isn't that asking too much from the user?
5 >
6 > Maybe there can be a way to automate the process. It should be as simple as
7 > asking the user to supply the full package name in an easily parsable
8 > format. Looking up the maintainer is a machine's job, and a job that a
9 > machine can do well. As for how to do it... a script parsing the mail of
10 > bug-wranglers should suffice.
11
12 This was the idea when the herds setup was originally thought out.
13 Unfortunately that didn't happen as bugzilla needs to be extended for it. It
14 shouldn't be difficult though.
15
16 Paul
17
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19 Paul de Vrieze
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