Tiziano Müller wrote:
Current state: "Deferred"
Wanted state: "Accepted/Implemented" (at least by me)
Open questions from last discussion (March 2006):
- Is it possible/should it be possible to have more than one <maintainer>
entry?
Yes
- Is recording an upstream-status (active/inactive) a good idea?
Maybe, leaning to No.
What about packages that have multiple slots, e.g php-4, php-5? one
slot could be inactive the other not, does that make upstream active?
Possibilities:
An element: <status>{active/inactive}</status>
Status of what? seeing you have proposed a upstream-status and a
maintainer status. what else is there left to status :P
An attribute: <maintainer status="{active/inactive}">...
No. As i'm pretty sure that every inactive maintainer won't go around
updating their packages metadata.xml
- Is an additional <doc> element needed to link to upstream docs
Interesting. what about the situation where upstream documentation sucks
but there is a "better" resource provided by a third party, could we
link to that? e.g. http://tldp.org for bash is an excellent resource
Multiple doc links?
<docs><official-doc/><official-doc/><doc/><doc/></docs> could provide
that. Only concern I see is that this could relate to an endorsement of
thirdparty websites, which may change negatively ( porn on tldp.org ) or
my just become outdated.
Actually without the multiple official/unofficial doc tags I would have
to say No. as 99% of the time it would just be "${HOMEPAGE}/doc" or
there would be a big fat link from the homepage and therefore would be
of no real benefit.
Alistair
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