On 6/8/08 01:17, "Lance Haig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It does look promising. > > I also have seen how ubuntu detect proprietary drivers and suggest the > user download them It worked a treat with my wirless driver. > > That might be something we could look at > > Lance
The way I see it, this goes part of the way to solving the problem, but not the whole way. Earlier it was mentioned that a package need not have a maintainer, like assigning to distro. There are two methods gentoo uses for this, which we should consider. Firstly, the most obvious one is just having a dummy maintainer. In the case of gentoo, this is maintainer-wanted, and its email broadcasts to all developers (I assume it just uses mailman or forwards to something that does). Secondly, gentoo uses the herd system, where a 'herd', or you can think of them as teams that maintain a related group of packages. There is a gnome herd, a kde herd, even a scheme and lisp herd ;) I don't necessarily think the term 'herd' is appropriate but the system works well. Maintainer-wanted fulfils things on a global basis, but you can also assign to a specific herd as well (since it's their field, they're the ones who will be maintaining it). This means it's going directly to the people with the expertise in this field (especially important in gentoo where breakages are more common due to the flexibility they provide in terms of which system libraries to use - lots of specialist patching needs to be done to lots of packages - Gentoo is the best distribution to get your package out early to if you're an upstream developer, they will find ALL the bugs). Anyway, I think the utility is cool, but without a little more infrastructure in the sort I've described above, it's not a solution. Cheers, --James _______________________________________________ Foresight-devel mailing list Foresight-devel@lists.rpath.org http://lists.rpath.org/mailman/listinfo/foresight-devel
