On 11/24/07, Jose Luis Rivero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all: > > I've read on the planet the recently included support to document USE > flags in metadata. Seems like it was an idea from flameeyes and cardoe, > discussed on the planet [1][2] and performed by -infra (bug #199788). > > While planet is a good medium to share ideas and get contributors, seems to > me like we need a more official way to discuss this kind of 'global' > ideas before make them real. Or at least drop a note on -dev-announce > explaining the new feature and telling devs and users this is now > officially supported. > > I'm not asking for an extra overhead of 'bureaucracy' (write specs, > mailling @dev, send to the council, etc.) but a bit more of communication > would be appreciated:
Maybe you aren't but I am. It takes all of 20 minutes to write a short GLEP. It takes 5 minutes to write an e-mail telling everyone that you are doing something new before you do it. Thanks for considering everyone in your changes. > > Is the feature ready to be used? Is there any kind of documentation > (aside of DTD)? It will replace use.desc? > > Thanks. > > [1] > http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/articles/2007/11/24/proposing-more-use-flag-documentation > [2] http://blog.cardoe.com/archives/2007/11/23/metadataxml-updates-examples/ > > -- > Jose Luis Rivero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Gentoo/Doc Gentoo/Alpha > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
