From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18856 invoked by uid 1002); 2 Jul 2003 13:53:25 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 28916 invoked from network); 2 Jul 2003 13:53:25 -0000 Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 09:53:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Weeve X-X-Sender: gen-email@stargazer.weeve.org To: Paul de Vrieze cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org, gentoo-core@gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200307021536.18639.pauldv@gentoo.org> Message-ID: References: <200307021536.18639.pauldv@gentoo.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] ANNOUNCEMENT: metadata.xml files can be created X-Archives-Salt: 2bae6d66-83a4-4629-8b98-bf68e501e0c4 X-Archives-Hash: 3c14c6cc6eb47125e3668e945f907184 On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > > Yes, the time is finally there. A milestone has been reached in the herds > project. The dtd for the metadata.xml file has been finalised. For all you > people who are curious, it does as yet not contain the changelog. > > The dtd can be found at http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd. > I request that all developers go and add metadata.xml files to the packages > they maintain. Further herds should be created. They need to be registered > to. Do we the developers have tools to manage these metadata.dtd files? IIRC, this was one of the huge concerns about having these (so people didn't fat finger things). Should we really be pushing them out before something to manage this exists (or did I miss something where it was announced)? > All people please take a look at > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/metastructure/herds/ > Where both formats are described. FYI, this page doesn't render correctly in mozilla-firebird (no text is displayed after the words "currently the" in the second sentence of the first section. Also, Konqueror 3.1.2 does not like the right table/panel. -- Weeve Gentoo/Sparc Team Lead -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list