From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j4OElhq1031756 for ; Tue, 24 May 2005 14:47:44 GMT Received: from 135-172.dsl.guernsey.net ([195.226.135.172] helo=localhost) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1DaahC-0003pF-1E for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 24 May 2005 14:47:50 +0000 Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 15:47:36 +0100 From: Tom Martin To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Pinboard of outdated ports Message-ID: <20050524144736.GA14394@pohl.lj.net> References: <20050523171138.GA22313@neurogen> <20050523194651.GB17991@pohl.lj.net> <20050523224751.GB5870@neurogen> 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="u3/rZRmxL6MmkK24" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050523224751.GB5870@neurogen> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-Archives-Salt: 498a0472-0788-4ea1-86e2-12d675d06875 X-Archives-Hash: c4f508deb32a1329fc7a26a6486723af --u3/rZRmxL6MmkK24 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 12:47:51AM +0200, Johannes Weiner wrote: > On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 08:46:51PM +0100, Tom Martin wrote: > > On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 07:11:38PM +0200, Johannes Weiner wrote: > > > * More staff needed > > > Despite the autodeletion of uptodate packages there has to be > > > someone attending the list. Remove real spam or uptodate packages > > > where the targetversion is principally right but not in the corre= ct=20 > > > format, so the autodeletion doesn't match. > >=20 > > How does it fit in with metadata.xml, and the maintainers and herds > > listed therein? >=20 > I don't get the context. Why metadata.xml? And why maintainers and herds > listed? Well, if this just creates an entry to the list with no mention of the email address of the maintainer, if given in metadata.xml, then it's pretty pointless in my opinion as no-one but the maintainer could/should bump software unless you've got a go-ahead from the maintainer or there are exceptional circumstances. My request is that when a new entry is added to the list, the software used checks the package's metadata.xml and includes the herd and maintainer on the list. If there is a maintainer specified, it sends an email to the maintainer. Maybe it would be better to tell maintainers to just subscribe to projects on freshmeat? Hope that makes sense now, Tom --=20 Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, vim, recruiters Gentoo Linux --u3/rZRmxL6MmkK24 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCkz6Ij5KihLXE/4kRAtY0AJ0bZ0zH5aWenjgEqmzmIRBV+PzgywCg6Cer 0NHVYy35HJThEY62//RRbPo= =cnDw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --u3/rZRmxL6MmkK24-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list