On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 09:24:32AM +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > 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. Ok. I think I understand now: Pseudo-headers things like: XS-X-Vcs-Svn: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-vim/trunk/packages/vim and this: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/qa/trunk/pts/www/bin/common.py?op=file near the bottom of the page. > > 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. thanks for jogging my memory :-) -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal |mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/| | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keyserver: subkeys.pgp.net | my NPO: cfsg.org | |join the new debian-community.org to help Debian! |
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