Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in dev-python/PyZilla: PyZilla-0.1.0.ebuild ChangeLog metadata.xml

[Jeroen Roovers <jer@gentoo.org>]

On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 23:28:05 +0200
René 'Necoro' Neumann <lists@necoro.eu> wrote:

> Am 27.03.2011 22:44, schrieb Rich Freeman:
> Well, but you need some way of communicate that certain packages are
> w/o a proper maintainer. Why else should someone step up? I, for
> instance, was quite surprised about the list of m-n packages and
> seeing that quite some packages I use are on that list. I would never
> had a look at it without this thread (or are users nowadays supposed
> to check metadata.xml on a regular basis?).

I remember distinctly that I once publicly proposed to change
<http://packages.gentoo.org/> to actually interpret packages'
<metadata.xml> and displaying its formatted contents on every
<http://packages.gentoo.org/package/CAT/PKG> page (notably because the
site mentioned and still mentions the last committer at the top of the
page, with his or her Gentoo e-mail alias/handle plainly visible, so at
the time I envisioned it to prevent people from addressing the
wrong developers). <metadata.xml> is a mere link on every page and
doesn't invite anyone to dig deeper, when it could be put to better
use. Our bugzilla database already has proper descriptions for every
alias we use, so we could reuse that information to improve
packages.g.o.

(Only, I cannot now find any trace of such a discussion at all, or even
the bug report I am quite certain I would have filed about this.)


     jer