Yes, the time is finally there. A milestone has been reached in the herds 
project. The dtd for the metadata.xml file has been finalised. For all you 
people who are curious, it does as yet not contain the changelog. 

The dtd can be found at http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd.
I request that all developers go and add metadata.xml files to the packages 
they maintain. Further herds should be created. They need to be registered 
to. 

All people please take a look at
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/metastructure/herds/
Where both formats are described.

For all users, if you don't come all at once, we need long descriptions for 
packages, and good suggestions are welcome on bugs.gentoo.org.

Paul

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Paul de Vrieze
Researcher
Mail: pauldv@cs.kun.nl
Homepage: http://www.cs.kun.nl/~pauldv