Re: [gentoo-dev] pre-GLEP review: Maintainership structure

[Michael Orlitzky]

On 11/03/2015 05:15 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
>
> Please review, comment and answer the questions in TODOs ;-).
>
> [1]:https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:MGorny/GLEP:Maintainership_structure
>

Much more sane than what we have now, thank you.

My only question is about the name of the "subproject" element. If you
haven't read the GLEP, can you tell me whether Foo is a subproject of
Bar or vice-versa?

  <project>
    <name>Foo</name>
    <email>foo@g.o</email>
    <subproject ref="bar@g.o"/>
  </project>

  <project>
    <name>Bar</name>
    <email>bar@g.o</email>
  </project>

Putting the name aside, I expected the mapping to go in the other
direction by analogy with relational databases.

This is also misleading with the current name:

  <subproject inherit-members="1"/>

That looks like the subproject inherits the members of the parent
project, right? But it's the other way around:

  * optional inherit-members="" attribute whose non-empty value
    indicates that subproject members are to be considered members of
    the parent project as well.

If everyone likes and wants to keep the name _sub_project, I think
_inherit_ is the wrong word to use, since children inherit from parents.