On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 9:26 PM, Jeroen Roovers <j...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 23:28:05 +0200 > René 'Necoro' Neumann <li...@necoro.eu> wrote: > >> Am 27.03.2011 22:44, schrieb Rich Freeman: >> Well, but you need some way of communicate that certain packages are >> w/o a proper maintainer. Why else should someone step up? I, for >> instance, was quite surprised about the list of m-n packages and >> seeing that quite some packages I use are on that list. I would never >> had a look at it without this thread (or are users nowadays supposed >> to check metadata.xml on a regular basis?). > > I remember distinctly that I once publicly proposed to change > <http://packages.gentoo.org/> to actually interpret packages' > <metadata.xml> and displaying its formatted contents on every > <http://packages.gentoo.org/package/CAT/PKG> page (notably because the > site mentioned and still mentions the last committer at the top of the > page, with his or her Gentoo e-mail alias/handle plainly visible, so at > the time I envisioned it to prevent people from addressing the > wrong developers). <metadata.xml> is a mere link on every page and > doesn't invite anyone to dig deeper, when it could be put to better > use. Our bugzilla database already has proper descriptions for every > alias we use, so we could reuse that information to improve > packages.g.o.
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/treecleaners/maintainer-needed.xml ? > > (Only, I cannot now find any trace of such a discussion at all, or even > the bug report I am quite certain I would have filed about this.) > > > jer > >
