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On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 1:25 AM, Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 6:30 AM, Diego Elio Pettenò <flameeyes@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> Hi all, |
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>> I was wondering if we have space already, or if others would feel |
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>> strongly about making space for, maintainer notes in packages' |
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>> metadata.xml. |
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> [snip] |
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>> What I'm thinking of is having some sort of <maintainernotes> element, |
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>> but not a passive one that has to be tested for, rather something that |
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>> repoman would spit out on the terminal when doing a scan/full. |
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>> Comments? |
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> Why don't we just encourage maintainers to add <!-- --> comments to |
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> metadata.xml? I'd love to have a new element if the data to be stored |
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> in that element would need to be parsed/categorized by external |
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> programs, but otherwise xml comments would work just fine. |
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And have repoman scan/full print out all <!-- --> comments? I think |
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that's why Diego is suggesting a new XML tag. |
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