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From: Tom Wijsman <TomWij@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] metadata.xml un<herd/>-ization, v2
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 21:35:55
Message-Id: 20141220223538.00003a8f@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] metadata.xml un-ization, v2 by Jeroen Roovers
1 On Tue, 9 Dec 2014 16:23:57 +0100
2 Jeroen Roovers <jer@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On Tue, 9 Dec 2014 12:59:26 +0100
5 > Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote:
6 >
7 > > >>>>> On Tue, 9 Dec 2014, Michał Górny wrote:
8 > >
9 > > > As for the exact details, I've pretty much decided to go for
10 > > > featurism here, IOW making everyone happy. It also proves how
11 > > > absurd typing maintainers is but if you really feel like having
12 > > > it, sure. The default is 'developer', <herd/> tags would be
13 > > > converted into 'herd' and there are other options including
14 > > > 'proxy-maintainer', 'project', 'team' meant to fit all our
15 > > > wannabies. The diff explains the particular options.
16 > >
17 > > > <!ELEMENT maintainer ( email, (description| name)* )>
18 > > > + <!-- maintainer organizational type -->
19 > > > + <!-- developer: regular Gentoo developer (direct e-mail) -->
20 > > > + <!-- herd: herd (defined in herds.xml) -->
21 > >
22 > > As the previously stated goal was to get rid of herds, I don't
23 > > understand why you want to reintroduce them as a value of the
24 > > type attribute. The existing herd elements should become either
25 > > type="project" or type="team" (everything that is not a project,
26 > > I suppose).
27 >
28 > Probably because of the rather verbose criticism brought forward by a
29 > single developer.
30
31 Probably because of the rather verbose burden of proof by another one.