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On Wednesday 10 December 2003 07:36, Sandy McArthur wrote: |
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> If this is the wrong place let me know. |
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> How about adding an optional freshmeat tag to the metadata.xml that |
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> could be used to robustly link the package with the contents of |
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> http://freshmeat.net/backend/ fm-projects.rdf (warning 72 meg file). |
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> This could be used to enable http://packages.gentoo.org/ to be updated |
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> with information on which packages had newer upstream releases since |
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> package maintainers frequently announce releases with freshmeat. A link |
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> to the freshmeat package page could be added which some users may find a |
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> useful resource. Freshmeat tracks a lot of useful metadata that |
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> package.gentoo.org can take advantage of like 'Development Status' which |
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> is from 'alpha' to 'mature' and indicates what level of maturity the |
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> package author thinks of her own work. Umm, links to screen shots or |
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> demo sites, dependency information, the more I think about it the |
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> possibly useful information that could be collected for free. |
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What would be needed for such a tag? (Except that dev's need to use it for it |
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to be usefull) |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Researcher |
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Mail: pauldv@××××××.nl |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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