From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15266 invoked from network); 21 Jul 2004 17:15:50 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 21 Jul 2004 17:15:50 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BnKh3-0007rB-JJ for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 21 Jul 2004 17:15:49 +0000 Received: (qmail 31220 invoked by uid 89); 21 Jul 2004 17:15:48 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 549 invoked from network); 21 Jul 2004 17:15:48 +0000 From: Carsten Lohrke To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 19:15:28 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <20040720131405.GW18023@mail.lieber.org> <200407211647.21609.carlo@gentoo.org> <200407211608.13130.stuart@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200407211608.13130.stuart@gentoo.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200407211915.34093.carlo@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Revisiting GLEP 19 X-Archives-Salt: 9c642e39-e3fb-4d71-8147-2b1c6f48af15 X-Archives-Hash: 4787861d4144f899adc30744c401a945 =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 21 July 2004 17:08, Stuart Herbert wrote: >For devs who > really hate using XML, we could always turn echangelog into a simple > form-filling tool to walk people through filling out a changelog entry. I implied this. I won't edit such xml files by hand on a regular basis. Eve= n=20 with such a tool it will need quite a bit more time, depending on what you= =20 want to put in these xml files. Regarding security vs bugfixes: For securit= y=20 we have glsa-check already and important bugfixes are handled via a marked= =20 stable -rX, so I don't see the problem here, beside that there is no=20 extensive information given, which someone would need to write. I mean, we are not even able to fix all the metadata.xml files. A lot are=20 simply missing, a lot name retired devs* as maintainer and quite a few list= =20 bug-wranglers or no-herd in it. Unless we do not have more developers it is= =20 not a good idea to force more overhead on us as necessary. *devrel isn't even able to provide a complete list of retired devs Carsten =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA/qS2VwbzmvGLSW8RAmVTAJ4oRql7ab45p0mIE4/pjgZy7CTIXACgjxE+ w+pfMbDLPPbfRjRge/3VR10=3D =3DLFmP =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list