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 j4NNCASj025926 for ; Mon, 23 May 2005 23:12:10 GMT Received: from als2077-router1.science.oregonstate.edu ([128.193.220.20] helo=[192.168.123.189]) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1DaM5i-0006Ug-Lx for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 23 May 2005 23:12:10 +0000 Message-ID: <429262B1.90109@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 16:09:37 -0700 From: Donnie Berkholz User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050415) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en 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gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Pinboard of outdated ports References: <20050523171138.GA22313@neurogen> <42923403.3080007@gentoo.org> <20050523225024.GC5870@neurogen> In-Reply-To: <20050523225024.GC5870@neurogen> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: b8614047-e0c8-4181-bd12-f7181bb2f759 X-Archives-Hash: f07c5546ae8bd9e13b14c2ec137bf57e -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Johannes Weiner wrote: > One more tab in ${BROWSER}.. And it shouldn't make more work. It should > ease the work already there. > Having submitted an outdated port seems to be more comfortable to me > than checking your portrepo everyday for actuality. 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.) 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 2. Search for Enhancement bugs assigned to that herd/maintainer in Bugzilla. In this case, it would be bugs assigned to x11@gentoo.org. 3. Profit! Thanks, Donnie -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCkmKxXVaO67S1rtsRArXJAJ4gx6G+v4CJkXxx2NCd6ZN1Yw/aBgCfTrGl 2wOH333zS11rgRLePRM3jxw= =GV1a -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list