On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 09:58:21PM +0200, Tiziano M?ller wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 04:22:02PM +0200, Tiziano M?ller wrote:
> >> One GLEP introduces new elements 'team', 'dev' and 'proxy':
> >>     http://dev.gentoo.org/~dev-zero/glep/glep-new_metadata_elements.html
> > 1. With the addition of <maintainer><team>cpp</team></maintainer>, why
> > do we still need <herd> elements?
> I'd see the herd element as kind of tag which could be used to search for
> packages (given the corresponding tools).
Clarify the GLEP to mention this please?

> > 2. "<gentoo:dev>dev-zero</gentoo:dev>". That's not possible to validate
> > sanely. The following would be better:
> > <maintainer><dev project="foobar">moodev</dev></maintainer>
> > 
> > With the default value of the 'project' attribute being 'gentoo'.
> That's another good solution. The possibility I mentioned is rather suitable
> for others wanting to extend our metadata.xml format (and still be able to
> validate the content of gentoo:dev against our list of devs).
'gentoo:dev' isn't directly validable. It states element 'dev' in the
XML namespace of 'gentoo'. That's why I think that the the project
attribute variation would be more suitable, and also really easy for
other projects to handle.

When they are adding their own metadata.xml files, they can use an XSL
transform to add the explicit "project='gentoo'" for their own
metadata.xml files.

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