From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Iwdqf-0000L9-6B for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:18:05 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with SMTP id lAQDGqnd001476; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:16:52 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with ESMTP id lAQDDIoP028158 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:13:18 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4001F651AF for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:13:18 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -1.642 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.642 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.957, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 9FY4URE6+CFt for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:13:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.190]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED44B650BF for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:13:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id b2so636384nfb for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 05:13:03 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.78.205.7 with SMTP id c7mr2796669hug.1196082783056; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 05:13:03 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.78.69.11 with HTTP; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 05:13:03 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 05:13:03 -0800 From: "Alec Warner" Sender: antarus@scriptkitty.com To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New USE flags documentation Cc: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org, flameeyes@gentoo.org, cardoe@gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20071124130354.GA8295@gentoo.org> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20071124130354.GA8295@gentoo.org> X-Google-Sender-Auth: deaa4937965482b2 X-Archives-Salt: 302033bb-5b29-458e-b6a0-a41d96f797c9 X-Archives-Hash: feba88fb7ef33f6a7f84d74263bba383 On 11/24/07, Jose Luis Rivero wrote: > Hi all: > > I've read on the planet the recently included support to document USE > flags in metadata. Seems like it was an idea from flameeyes and cardoe, > discussed on the planet [1][2] and performed by -infra (bug #199788). > > While planet is a good medium to share ideas and get contributors, seems to > me like we need a more official way to discuss this kind of 'global' > ideas before make them real. Or at least drop a note on -dev-announce > explaining the new feature and telling devs and users this is now > officially supported. > > I'm not asking for an extra overhead of 'bureaucracy' (write specs, > mailling @dev, send to the council, etc.) but a bit more of communication > would be appreciated: Maybe you aren't but I am. It takes all of 20 minutes to write a short GLEP. It takes 5 minutes to write an e-mail telling everyone that you are doing something new before you do it. Thanks for considering everyone in your changes. > > Is the feature ready to be used? Is there any kind of documentation > (aside of DTD)? It will replace use.desc? > > Thanks. > > [1] http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/articles/2007/11/24/proposing-more-use-flag-documentation > [2] http://blog.cardoe.com/archives/2007/11/23/metadataxml-updates-examples/ > > -- > Jose Luis Rivero > Gentoo/Doc Gentoo/Alpha > > -- > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Iwdq2-0000KB-Bh for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:17:26 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with SMTP id lAQDG6xS032725; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:16:06 GMT Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.185]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with ESMTP id lAQDD4Ox028060 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:13:05 GMT Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id f5so662800nfh for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 05:13:03 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.78.205.7 with SMTP id c7mr2796669hug.1196082783056; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 05:13:03 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.78.69.11 with HTTP; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 05:13:03 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 05:13:03 -0800 From: "Alec Warner" Sender: antarus@scriptkitty.com To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New USE flags documentation Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org, flameeyes@gentoo.org, cardoe@gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20071124130354.GA8295@gentoo.org> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20071124130354.GA8295@gentoo.org> X-Google-Sender-Auth: deaa4937965482b2 X-Archives-Salt: 265d6057-2db1-4af2-940b-4dbaac19abb9 X-Archives-Hash: 2a3633b7ccaf6b04d8e04923f9e09a44 Message-ID: <20071126131303.xHS3KfGF00FDwtIW7ohCrvyOSUufWMv3wn-4XcnxWMI@z> On 11/24/07, Jose Luis Rivero wrote: > Hi all: > > I've read on the planet the recently included support to document USE > flags in metadata. Seems like it was an idea from flameeyes and cardoe, > discussed on the planet [1][2] and performed by -infra (bug #199788). > > While planet is a good medium to share ideas and get contributors, seems to > me like we need a more official way to discuss this kind of 'global' > ideas before make them real. Or at least drop a note on -dev-announce > explaining the new feature and telling devs and users this is now > officially supported. > > I'm not asking for an extra overhead of 'bureaucracy' (write specs, > mailling @dev, send to the council, etc.) but a bit more of communication > would be appreciated: Maybe you aren't but I am. It takes all of 20 minutes to write a short GLEP. It takes 5 minutes to write an e-mail telling everyone that you are doing something new before you do it. Thanks for considering everyone in your changes. > > Is the feature ready to be used? Is there any kind of documentation > (aside of DTD)? It will replace use.desc? > > Thanks. > > [1] http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/articles/2007/11/24/proposing-more-use-flag-documentation > [2] http://blog.cardoe.com/archives/2007/11/23/metadataxml-updates-examples/ > > -- > Jose Luis Rivero > Gentoo/Doc Gentoo/Alpha > > -- > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list