From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27916 invoked by uid 1002); 10 Dec 2003 00:36:32 -0600 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-portage-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail Reply-To: gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 26574 invoked from network); 10 Dec 2003 00:36:31 -0600 Message-ID: <3FD6BEEB.2070408@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 01:36:27 -0500 From: Sandy McArthur User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20031029 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org X-Enigmail-Version: 0.76.4.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=6.1 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.60 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on audrey.leeprinting.com Subject: [gentoo-portage-dev] RFE: adding optional freshmeat id to metadata.xml X-Archives-Salt: d38e4e72-1de6-4063-ab5c-207b67ae8fef X-Archives-Hash: 8a44d43e68151165f9e79647e3aa61c9 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 -- gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org mailing list