From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Q6xqs-0000Mb-H1 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2011 04:26:50 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9AE21E0638; Tue, 5 Apr 2011 04:26:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp-vbr19.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr19.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.39]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07C30E0616 for ; Tue, 5 Apr 2011 04:26:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from epia.jer-c2.orkz.net (D4B2706A.static.ziggozakelijk.nl [212.178.112.106]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp-vbr19.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p354QA7R079287 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 5 Apr 2011 06:26:12 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jer@gentoo.org) Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 06:26:09 +0200 From: Jeroen Roovers To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in dev-python/PyZilla: PyZilla-0.1.0.ebuild ChangeLog metadata.xml Message-ID: <20110405062609.3db9d48d@epia.jer-c2.orkz.net> In-Reply-To: <4D8FABE5.4010006@necoro.eu> References: <20110326055210.E906D20054@flycatcher.gentoo.org> <4D8EC104.4090503@gentoo.org> <4D8F3BE8.5050300@gentoo.org> <4D8FABE5.4010006@necoro.eu> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.8 (GTK+ 2.22.1; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: e611185560e208ed0d2f582e73ed0cb7 On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 23:28:05 +0200 Ren=C3=A9 'Necoro' Neumann 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 to actually interpret packages' and displaying its formatted contents on every 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). 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