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

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

[Sandy McArthur]

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.

   Sandy McArthur


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

[Paul de Vrieze]

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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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