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From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Missing <name> inside metadata.xmls
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2022 22:49:55
Message-Id: 6bdea513a8584a422a23b39cd866d276a3c3db96.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Missing inside metadata.xmls by mscardovi@icloud.com
1 On Mon, 2022-12-19 at 22:05 +0100, mscardovi@××××××.com wrote:
2 >
3 > I know it’s not actually imperative to add it but actually strongly
4 > suggested to maintain things consistent. What do you think about
5 > that? Is something You find important to stick?
6 >
7
8 The problem is that the name is redundant for Gentoo developers. It's
9 often helpful to have it for other types (e.g. proxy) developers, but I
10 find it a bit pointless to copy/paste "Michael Orlitzky" into hundreds
11 of ebuilds when it can easily be deduced from "mjo@g.o."

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Missing <name> inside metadata.xmls Marco Scardovi <mscardovi@××××××.com>