From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from ipx11328.ipxserver.de (e29.de [212.112.229.153]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j4O5Qnk5025286 for ; Tue, 24 May 2005 05:26:49 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ipx11328.ipxserver.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92D09236B8 for ; Tue, 24 May 2005 07:26:52 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ipx11328.ipxserver.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ipx11328 [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 28818-07 for ; Tue, 24 May 2005 07:26:50 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (p54A48154.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.164.129.84]) by ipx11328.ipxserver.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85DBE365 for ; Tue, 24 May 2005 07:26:50 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 07:26:49 +0200 From: Johannes Weiner To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Pinboard of outdated ports Message-ID: <20050524052649.GA5733@neurogen> References: <20050523171138.GA22313@neurogen> <42923403.3080007@gentoo.org> <20050523225024.GC5870@neurogen> <429262B1.90109@gentoo.org> 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 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="82I3+IH0IqGh5yIs" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <429262B1.90109@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ipx11328.ipxserver.de X-Archives-Salt: ab1f90a1-74e1-44c4-a385-b74747bdde30 X-Archives-Hash: eac0f81f2fe678c6d3225677d9a38238 --82I3+IH0IqGh5yIs Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > 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 interfac= e.) 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 It was just to find a fas= ter way for outdated ebuilds getting updated.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. >=20 > 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: >=20 > 1. Use herdstat to find the maintainer, if you aren't comfortable with > the metadata.xml files. >=20 > $ 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. --=20 Today is Prickle-Prickle, the 71st day of Discord in the YOLD 3171 --82I3+IH0IqGh5yIs Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCkrsZ1heCLyOG8GcRAiGGAJ9o2IC6PipmYSuLeypVF2o+MM/9rgCggfgm W8zbkDthOtYOeWdcEKBV5no= =GpKy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --82I3+IH0IqGh5yIs-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list