Am Donnerstag, den 04.02.2010, 22:37 +0100 schrieb Tiziano Müller: > While some people already discovered the upstream metadata tags, there > are only 8 ebuilds using them so far. Mostly I am to blame for that, > since I forgot to send out a proper announcement. While all the required > information can be found in the Developer Handbook [1], here is a short > summary: > > The upstream tags are meant as a way to track information about > upstream, like: > - the upstream status (can make treecleaners lives easier) > - online documentation links (a shortcut for the user) > - not-so-obvious contact/bug-reporting information > - id of a hosting or indexing site (automated version bump checks) > - their alignment (mostly chaotic-neutral ;-) > > An example (copied from GLEP 46 [2] itself): > <upstream> > <maintainer status="inactive"> > <name>Foo Bar</name> > <email>f...@bar.bar</email> > </maintainer> > <maintainer status="active"> > <name>Foo Gentoo</name> > <email>f...@gentoo.org</email> > </maintainer> > <changelog>http://foo.bar/changelog.txt</changelog> > <doc lang="en">http://foo.bar/doc/index.html</doc> > <doc lang="de">http://foo.bar/doc/index.de.html</doc> > <bugs-to>https://bugs.foo.bar</bugs-to> > <remote-id type="freshmeat">foobar</remote-id> > <remote-id type="sourceforge">foobar</remote-id> > </upstream> > > Please note: > - the <maintainer> tag in <upstream> is only for specifying an upstream > maintainer name and e-mail address and does not specify the ebuild > maintainer (although it may be the same if you decide to become > upstream). > - the type attribute for <remote-id> is currently one of (freshmeat| > sourceforge|cpan|vim), send a mail to gentoo-dev before adding > additional sites > - the data in the <remote-id> tags is an id which uniquely identifies > the project on that site: > - for type="vim": the script_id (example: 2586) > - for type="freshmeat": the project name (example: aria2) > - for type="sourceforge": the project name (example: liferea) > - for type="cpan": the module name (example: Pod-Index)
Other sites I'd like to add: - pypi - google-code - ctan ... if someone can identify a key for packages Opinions? Cheers, Tiziano -- Tiziano Müller Gentoo Linux Developer Areas of responsibility: Samba, PostgreSQL, CPP, Python, sysadmin, GLEP Editor E-Mail : dev-z...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : F327 283A E769 2E36 18D5 4DE2 1B05 6A63 AE9C 1E30
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