[Catalog-sig] New fields in the Metadata for PyPI

[Tarek Ziadé]

Hello

As suggested here, then discussed at Distutils-SIG,  I would like to
propose the addition of two more fields for the
upcoming Metadata 1.2 (PEP 345) that could be used at PyPI on projects pages.

"Repository-Browse-URL"
    A string containing the URL for the package's browsable
repository. It can be any url of the repository
    (trunk, branch, tags) as long as it can be browsed from a web browser.

  Example:
     http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk

"Bug-Tracker-URL"
  A string containing the URL for the package's bug tracker.

  Example:
     http://bugs.python.org/


Other fields were proposed, but were controversial. You can follow the
latest discussions at distutils-sig about them,

If these fields are added, PyPI could display those links and offer a
standard way for end users to interact with the projects
maintainers, besides the "comment/rating" feature.

Regards
Tarek