This one time, at band camp, Thomas Viehmann said: > Hi Stefano, > > Bluefuture wrote: > >I know that there are a little bit group of people that think that the > >"old" use of watch file could be converted in a Qa tools, but actually > >i'm the only one that is trying to find a solution that could fix that > >lack of watch file. > >But without maintainers interest, the project still lack in an usable > >status. > >There is no reason to put more work and effort on a community tool that > >community itself consider useless. > >I hope that something could change. But i don't belive it. > I know that I thougt dehs per se not too useful, but the watch section > on qa.d.o has inspired me to write watch files for two of my packages. > Not much (2 out of 7), admittedly, but I think that it's fairly useful. > I think the experimental columns are overkill (as people packaging > experimental stuff probably monitor upstream releases even more closely). > If 25% of the packages can be watched, hey, that's a fair share. Just my 2 cents, but I agree - only two of my packages have useful (and really, alive) upstreams, so they are the only ones with watch files. That doesn't mean it's unhelpful though - it alerted me to a new hdparm before I would otherwise have known. Thanks for your efforts. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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