Re: [gentoo-dev] Pinboard of outdated ports

[Johannes Weiner <hnaz@tutorialzone.de>]

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> What it seems like you're doing here is saying more work for the
> developers is fine, if it makes things easier for the users. (Developers
> will just cvs up, which is likely faster than dealing with a web interface.)

I dunno if it's really big work to have a look at one site to see if
there are ebuilds you missed when they were updated.
It was not my intention to make really more work. It was just to find a faster
way for outdated ebuilds getting updated.

> Although that may be nice in concept, in reality developers may have
> quite limited time. Most things that detract from the time they spend on
> development rather than on searching around and figuring out what to do
> makes Gentoo worse. It has yet to be proven that your suggestion would
> take more time, but that's the feeling I have.
> 
> If one knows how to search bugzilla and understands how maintainers are
> indicated, this can be comparably easy already. Something like this
> could give you a search:
> 
> 1. Use herdstat to find the maintainer, if you aren't comfortable with
> the metadata.xml files.
> 
> $ herdstat --metadata xorg-x11
> Package:         x11-base/xorg-x11
> Herds(1):        x11
> Maintainers(0):  none
> Homepage:        http://xorg.freedesktop.org/
> Description:     X11 implementation by X.Org Foundation

Will try this, my idea seems to be refused anyway.

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