Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Proposal: tla tree-description

[Nathan Howell]

* Rob Kaper <address@hidden> [2004-03-02 08:52]:
> I'd like to know if anyone else is interested in an extension to arch to set
> a description for a project:

> tla tree-description [options] [description]

> to list or set a short description for a project tree. I've started to work
> on a graphical client to browse archives and noticed that a concise tree
> description would definitely be useful to have somewhere.

> Take the following abrowse output as example:

> address@hidden
>   atlantik
>     atlantik--mainline
>       atlantik--mainline--0.7
>         base-0 .. patch-8
> <snip>

> What's that all about then? Who knows! Adding a description would encourage
> people to browse archives because it decreases the chance they download
> something they don't really want and likewise increases their ability to
> find what they do want.

[snip]

I would certainly like to see that. Not just for categories though, I'd
like to see the same thing for the archives themselves. Once you get
several archives registered, it can sometimes be a bit of a mystery as
to what some of them are when you run tla archives.

Nathan