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From: Michael Palimaka <kensington@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: metadata.xml un<herd/>-ization, v2
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 06:24:10
Message-Id: m6bd93$aao$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] metadata.xml un-ization, v2 by Luca Barbato
1 On 10/12/14 06:35, Luca Barbato wrote:
2 > On 09/12/14 17:34, Michał Górny wrote:
3 >
4 >> I'm all for keeping it simple. However, backwards compatibility makes
5 >> it hard to keep things simple. I'd love to do, say, metadata.yml
6 >> supporting stuff like:
7 >>
8 >> - maintainer: foo@g.o, bar@g.o
9 >>
10 >> - maintainer:
11 >> - name: Foo Bar
12 >> email: foo@g.o
13 >> - bar@g.o
14 >>
15 >> (pseudo-code, not sure if it's 100% valid YAML)
16 >>
17 >
18 > Would be neat though.
19 >
20 > Back to the discussion would be nice to have just project@g.o
21 > instead of complex mappings.
22
23 This would be by far the easiest solution. Some herds already have an
24 alias like this eg. freedesktop -> freedesktop-bugs. Much easier than
25 mass-editing every single metadata.xml with what amounts to a cosmetic
26 change.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: metadata.xml un<herd/>-ization, v2 Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>