Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: extending project xml to have stuff that the project is working on and collect them as Gentoo current goals

[Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@gentoo.org>]

Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 00:17 +0300, Petteri Räty wrote:
>> Chris Gianelloni kirjoitti:
>>> On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 23:34 +0300, Petteri Räty wrote:
>>>> Then we require this file to be updated
>>>> monthly. What do you think? 
>>> I think Release Engineering would kill you in our off time.  This has
>>> been brought up before, but some projects just don't have enough going
>>> on to update on a regular cycle.
>>>
>> So you just change the date? I don't think we should require anything
>> but acknowledgment that the old data still applies.
> 
> So turn it into one more mundane and pointless task that I am forced to
> perform simply because it is a matter of policy?  Having to go around
> saying "yes, this is still correct" is rather wasteful, is it not?  I
> know I would have to do this for several projects, all of which are not
> the sort to really have updates to publish.

Seems like a reasonable idea. So many of our webpages are out of date 
that asking people to check any pages they "maintain" (where's our 
metadata.xml?) whether they're still current once in a while might work. 
Adding extra busywork to this by documenting it may not be worthwhile.

Thanks,
Donnie
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