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 1Q73yI-0003LY-S3 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2011 10:58:55 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7E7B21C029; Tue, 5 Apr 2011 10:58:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-px0-f179.google.com (mail-px0-f179.google.com [209.85.212.179]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6789A1C01B for ; Tue, 5 Apr 2011 10:58:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pxi2 with SMTP id 2so167019pxi.10 for ; Tue, 05 Apr 2011 03:58:05 -0700 (PDT) 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 Received: by 10.142.186.13 with SMTP id j13mr7318043wff.25.1302001085320; Tue, 05 Apr 2011 03:58:05 -0700 (PDT) Sender: antarus@scriptkitty.com Received: by 10.68.41.166 with HTTP; Tue, 5 Apr 2011 03:58:05 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20110405062609.3db9d48d@epia.jer-c2.orkz.net> References: <20110326055210.E906D20054@flycatcher.gentoo.org> <4D8EC104.4090503@gentoo.org> <4D8F3BE8.5050300@gentoo.org> <4D8FABE5.4010006@necoro.eu> <20110405062609.3db9d48d@epia.jer-c2.orkz.net> Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 03:58:05 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 08ji47JJbItXgJoH7i_FpB0OGsM Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in dev-python/PyZilla: PyZilla-0.1.0.ebuild ChangeLog metadata.xml From: Alec Warner To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Cc: Jeroen Roovers Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 5d5c82fa423c2d23b02bf95d92b58054 On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 9:26 PM, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > 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. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/treecleaners/maintainer-needed.xml ? > > (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.) > > > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 jer > >