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From: Jeroen Roovers <jer@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] metadata.xml un<herd/>-ization, v2
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 15:24:09
Message-Id: 20141209162357.49d57236@marga.jer-c2.orkz.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] metadata.xml un-ization, v2 by Ulrich Mueller
1 On Tue, 9 Dec 2014 12:59:26 +0100
2 Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > >>>>> On Tue, 9 Dec 2014, Michał Górny wrote:
5 >
6 > > As for the exact details, I've pretty much decided to go for
7 > > featurism here, IOW making everyone happy. It also proves how absurd
8 > > typing maintainers is but if you really feel like having it, sure.
9 > > The default is 'developer', <herd/> tags would be converted into
10 > > 'herd' and there are other options including 'proxy-maintainer',
11 > > 'project', 'team' meant to fit all our wannabies. The diff explains
12 > > the particular options.
13 >
14 > > <!ELEMENT maintainer ( email, (description| name)* )>
15 > > + <!-- maintainer organizational type -->
16 > > + <!-- developer: regular Gentoo developer (direct e-mail) -->
17 > > + <!-- herd: herd (defined in herds.xml) -->
18 >
19 > As the previously stated goal was to get rid of herds, I don't
20 > understand why you want to reintroduce them as a value of the
21 > type attribute. The existing herd elements should become either
22 > type="project" or type="team" (everything that is not a project,
23 > I suppose).
24
25 Probably because of the rather verbose criticism brought forward by a
26 single developer.
27
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29 jer

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Re: [gentoo-dev] metadata.xml un<herd/>-ization, v2 Tom Wijsman <TomWij@g.o>