Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] RFE: adding optional freshmeat id to metadata.xml

[Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@gentoo.org>]

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On Wednesday 10 December 2003 07:36, Sandy McArthur wrote:
> If this is the wrong place let me know.
>
>    How about adding an optional freshmeat tag to the metadata.xml that
> could be used to robustly link the package with the contents of
> http://freshmeat.net/backend/ fm-projects.rdf (warning 72 meg file).
> This could be used to enable http://packages.gentoo.org/ to be updated
> with information on which packages had newer upstream releases since
> package maintainers frequently announce releases with freshmeat. A link
> to the freshmeat package page could be added which some users may find a
> useful resource. Freshmeat tracks a lot of useful metadata that
> package.gentoo.org can take advantage of like 'Development Status' which
> is from 'alpha' to 'mature' and indicates what level of maturity the
> package author thinks of her own work. Umm, links to screen shots or
> demo sites, dependency information, the more I think about it the
> possibly useful information that could be collected for free.

What would be needed for such a tag? (Except that dev's need to use it for it 
to be usefull)

Paul

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