From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice Subject: Re: package requests Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2020 15:06:32 +0200 Message-ID: <87eesbsojk.fsf@nckx> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:51702) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jSKVq-0002nb-Vr for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Apr 2020 09:06:31 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jSKVq-0004YJ-4l for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Apr 2020 09:06:30 -0400 Received: from tobias.gr ([2a02:c205:2020:6054::1]:59420) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jSKVo-0004Le-Ox for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Apr 2020 09:06:29 -0400 Received: by tobias.gr (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 6c06428d for ; Sat, 25 Apr 2020 13:06:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by submission.tobias.gr (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id 9eef2b84 (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256:NO) for ; Sat, 25 Apr 2020 13:06:21 +0000 (UTC) In-reply-to: List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: guix-devel@gnu.org --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Catonano, Catonano =E5=86=99=E9=81=93=EF=BC=9A > Say that some people file bugs in the Guix issue tracker=20 > requesting the > packaging of some software projects > > Can a list of such requests be seen in any way ? [=E2=80=A6] > Is there any specific tagging scheme to be used for package=20 > requests filing ? Not that I know of. It's all very ad-hoc and things get lost &=20 forgotten. is the closest=20 thing we have to an =E2=80=98official=E2=80=99 list. While a structured approach would be much better than our wiki=20 page, I prefer that wiki page over *our* bug tracker. Please, if you see any package requests on the (bug) mailing=20 lists, tell them about it and help keep it up to date. > Is there any repository anywhere hosting a project for=20 > extracting such > requests from the issue tracker and displaying them nicely in a=20 > web page? That would be nice. I do wonder if making things shinier will=20 suffice to lure those elusive packaging gnomes. Kind regards, T G-R --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHUEARYKAB0WIQT12iAyS4c9C3o4dnINsP+IT1VteQUCXqQ12AAKCRANsP+IT1Vt eSsQAQCkJPe6EUIKDj/6zWKy4BXIPyfS2zNn2epVAyVsineHUQEA0NO/YgmY0eyo ongSAGM9Lg9ArhWfEMrkxh1a6C/ArAQ= =9zp+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--