Re: new BTS stanza
On Fri, March 9, 2007 22:09, Don Armstrong wrote:
> On Fri, 09 Mar 2007, Kevin Mark wrote:
>
>> I have seen the PTS and I see info like: info about the stable,
>> testing, unstable package, depenencies, link to file list,link to bts,
>> link to dsc, and links to p.qa.d.o None of those links are to a mailing
>> list to contain discussions of package development like pkg-* or
>> debian-* where an interested users could join and help fix bugs.
>
> AFAIK, there's no centralized place where all of that information is
> available. Before adding it to the BTS (or PTS) can even be considered, it
> needs to be made available, and the methods for maintainers to modify it
> made clear.
The PTS already supports displaying the information that Kevin wants to
see, the only thing is that maintainers need to add that information
themselves. That is indeed because there's no central repository (yet) of
such metadata.
Recently many maintainers have been adding information about the version
control repository location of their packages to the PTS. Others have
included a link to the Alioth project or to an upstream homepage.
So it's possible already, just not everyone does it, and thus the
information is not available.
Thijs
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