Isn't it interesting in our Meta-Package project? Describe Open Source Projects with XML, Part 1 Edd Dumbill, IBM developerWorks
There are many different open source software registries: perhaps the best known and longest-running of these is Freshmeat, but there are many more, often meeting more specialized needs. So many registries now exist that keeping them up to date has become a real problem. The release cycle for diligent software maintainers often involves visits to several Web sites to keep the information up to date, not to mention updating their own Web sites. However, such maintainers are few and far between, and it's not uncommon to find out-of-date information in a registry. That this data gets out of date is unsurprising when you consider the aspects that many modern software projects involve: mailing lists, IRC channels, Web sites, wikis, CVS repositories, and so on. This article starts the development of a solution that meets the need of keeping software project information up-to-date: a vocabulary that can be used in an XML document for the Web-wide exchange of project details. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-osproj.html -- ~/.signature not found This is Unix we're talking about, remember. It's not supposed to be nice for the applications programmer. -- Matthew Danish on debian-devel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
