From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JGFAZ-0002ek-C3 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 19 Jan 2008 14:59:39 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2C0D7E0532; Sat, 19 Jan 2008 14:57:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 086FCE0532 for ; Sat, 19 Jan 2008 14:57:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 772AD65542 for ; Sat, 19 Jan 2008 14:57:46 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -1.982 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.982 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.617, 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 wOtcZmvwMg5n for ; Sat, 19 Jan 2008 14:57:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 038266548F for ; Sat, 19 Jan 2008 14:57:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JGF8T-0003fi-26 for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Sat, 19 Jan 2008 14:57:29 +0000 Received: from gw.ptr-80-238-132-74.customer.ch.netstream.com ([80.238.132.74]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 19 Jan 2008 14:57:29 +0000 Received: from dev-zero by gw.ptr-80-238-132-74.customer.ch.netstream.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 19 Jan 2008 14:57:29 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Tiziano =?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=FCller?= Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 46: Allow upstream tags in metadata.xml Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 15:56:55 +0100 Organization: Gentoo Message-ID: References: <3c32af40801190617x463b50d7n2a5c7b1faec8293e@mail.gmail.com> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: gw.ptr-80-238-132-74.customer.ch.netstream.com User-Agent: KNode/0.10.5 Sender: news Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 60563da8-441d-4847-a799-df9f1e52be8d X-Archives-Hash: 6d30c70603290facc5151ee1196fac89 Santiago M. Mola wrote: > On Jan 19, 2008 2:07 PM, Tiziano M=FCller wrote: >> >> Current state: "Deferred" >> Wanted state: "Accepted/Implemented" (at least by me) >=20 > The GLEP should be updated. "Motivation" section does not seem to > justify the changes. IMO Meatoo [1] (and its hipothetical rewrite > using Doapspace [2]) would be the right tool to detect version bumps. > Maybe metadata.xml should contain a Freshmeat or DOAP entry so meatoo > could get more automation. Unfortunately not all projects update their Freshmeat entry. But you're right about the motivation: The point "It will reduce the time spent by developers trying to find how to contact upstream." should get more attention. Maybe it should even be split into two proposals: "New upstream tags to store maintenance upstream info" and "Add upstream tags to be able to sto= re upstream version info" (or something like this, I'm sure you get the idea= ). --=20 gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list