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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] metadata.xml un<herd/>-ization, v2
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 17:59:35
Message-Id: 21639.14458.518224.848493@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] metadata.xml un-ization, v2 by "Michał Górny"
1 >>>>> On Tue, 9 Dec 2014, Michał Górny wrote:
2
3 > That is *precisely the goal* of this. We scratch <herd/> and
4 > <project/>, and just use well-supported <maintainer/> tag. type=""
5 > is entirely optional, unobtrusive and backwards-compatible with
6 > existing apps. And yes, with just <maintainer/> tag the rule in bug
7 > assignment is always to the first entry.
8
9 This still means that you either
10 - duplicate in every package dir information that is also maintained
11 elsewhere, like mapping from herd or project name to its e-mail
12 address, or
13 - need to do reverse mapping, e.g. from the e-mail address to the
14 project's name.
15
16 Ulrich

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Re: [gentoo-dev] metadata.xml un<herd/>-ization, v2 "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>