From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FsVdc-0007E1-Ig for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 02:06:44 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k5K257MP011262; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 02:05:07 GMT Received: from relay03.pair.com (relay03.pair.com [209.68.5.17]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k5K22QIY006795 for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 02:02:27 GMT Received: (qmail 62474 invoked by uid 0); 20 Jun 2006 02:02:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO procyon) (unknown) by unknown with SMTP; 20 Jun 2006 02:02:25 -0000 X-pair-Authenticated: 150.101.122.233 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] 1/2 OT: Comprehensive Source Database From: Andrew Cowie To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20060619155751.GA24577@nibiru.local> References: <20060619155751.GA24577@nibiru.local> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Operational Dynamics Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 12:02:09 +1000 Message-Id: <1150768929.15731.3.camel@procyon.operationaldynamics.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 7e7fa8ac-c2c3-480c-b61f-f1378d7603d9 X-Archives-Hash: b012a892a6108e472d53f809d6a0dffb On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 17:57 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > I'm currently working on infrastructure for an comprehensive and > detailed source database. > > It is not an replacement for freshmeat (which is good software > index for human users), but an strictly defined database of package > releases and assigned download URLs along with several meta-data It may or may not be what you want, but what you've described sounds very close to what Mark Shuttleworth articulated as the vision behind launchpad. https://launchpad.net/ I'm not sure if any other distros besides Ubuntu are using it yet, but certainly things will improve geometrically as they start to. You may want to investigate using it and/or offering to plug the functionality you want into it. AfC Sydney -- Andrew Frederick Cowie Managing Director Operational Dynamics Consulting Pty Ltd http://www.operationaldynamics.com/ Management Consultants specializing in strategy, organizational architecture, procedures to survive change, and performance hardening for the people and systems behind the mission critical enterprise. Worldwide: Sydney +61 2 9977 6866 New York +1 646 472 5054 Toronto +1 416 848 6072 London +44 207 1019201 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list