[gentoo-dev] New metadata fields

[gentoo-dev] New metadata fields

[Steve Dibb]

I had an idea for some new fields to go in metadata.xml.  Not sure if we 
would need a GLEP for this or not?  Anyway, what do you guys think:

Two things I can think of adding that would be useful:

- ChangeLog URL
- Bug Tracker

I know I hate hunting down the two of them, and both of them could be 
useful references for developers and users.

Plus, not every upstream has them, so they can of course be optional fields.

Steve

Re: [gentoo-dev] New metadata fields

[Tomáš Chvátal]

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Dne středa 03 Červen 2009 16:38:28 Steve Dibb napsal(a):
> I had an idea for some new fields to go in metadata.xml.  Not sure if we
> would need a GLEP for this or not?  Anyway, what do you guys think:
>
> Two things I can think of adding that would be useful:
>
> - ChangeLog URL
> - Bug Tracker
>
> I know I hate hunting down the two of them, and both of them could be
> useful references for developers and users.
>
> Plus, not every upstream has them, so they can of course be optional
> fields.
>
> Steve
++ by me, those are mostly usual and i allways google for them. Usualy they 
are quite hidden ;]

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Re: [gentoo-dev] New metadata fields

[Jeremy Olexa]

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Steve Dibb <beandog@gentoo.org> wrote:
> I had an idea for some new fields to go in metadata.xml.  Not sure if we
> would need a GLEP for this or not?  Anyway, what do you guys think:
>
> Two things I can think of adding that would be useful:
>
> - ChangeLog URL
> - Bug Tracker
>
> I know I hate hunting down the two of them, and both of them could be useful
> references for developers and users.
>
> Plus, not every upstream has them, so they can of course be optional fields.
>
> Steve
>
>

mraudsepp pointed this out in irc (I didn't know about it either):
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2&chap=4

You are allowed to use <changelog> and <bugs-to>

So...have fun ;)

-Jeremy

Re: [gentoo-dev] New metadata fields

[Douglas Anderson]

The equery 'meta' module in gentoolkit-0.3.0* can show all the
upstream fields, though not many packages currently make use of it.

Oh yeah, and there's a traceback in the upstream code that's been
fixed but won't be in the tree until rc7, so you may want to wait to
check it out.

$ equery m --upstream lince
 * net-p2p/lince
Remote ID:  sourceforge: lincetorrent

Re: [gentoo-dev] New metadata fields

[Mounir Lamouri]

Jeremy Olexa wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Steve Dibb <beandog@gentoo.org> wrote:
>   
>> I had an idea for some new fields to go in metadata.xml.  Not sure if we
>> would need a GLEP for this or not?  Anyway, what do you guys think:
>>
>> Two things I can think of adding that would be useful:
>>
>> - ChangeLog URL
>> - Bug Tracker
>>
>> I know I hate hunting down the two of them, and both of them could be useful
>> references for developers and users.
>>
>> Plus, not every upstream has them, so they can of course be optional fields.
>>
>> Steve
>>
>>     
>
> mraudsepp pointed this out in irc (I didn't know about it either):
> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2&chap=4
>
> You are allowed to use <changelog> and <bugs-to>
>
> So...have fun ;)
>
> -Jeremy
>   
I think Jeremy just proposed to add these fields in metadata.xml
gentoo-syntax template for vim.
That's a great idea Jeremy, it will surely help more devs to fill these
fields ! :)

Mounir