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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] pre-GLEP review: Maintainership structure
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2015 16:07:46
Message-Id: 20151108170729.0a4df593.mgorny@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] pre-GLEP review: Maintainership structure by Michael Orlitzky
1 On Sun, 8 Nov 2015 11:02:09 -0500
2 Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On 11/08/2015 10:53 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
5 > >
6 > > No. This is going to be PITA to parse, and indefinite recursion is just
7 > > wrong. Like you suddenly have to traverse the whole crazy structure to
8 > > find a particular project.
9 > >
10 >
11 > That's already true if you want the last project in the file =P
12 >
13 > You're just traversing a list of linked lists rather than a linear list.
14 > The indefinite recursion is already there: in the draft I can create an
15 > infinite number of nested <subproject/> pointers, or worse I could do,
16 >
17 > <project>
18 > <name>Foo</name>
19 > <email>foo@g.o</email>
20 > <subproject ref="foo@g.o"/>
21 > </project>
22
23 I meant finding project by e-mail. You don't have to care about
24 subprojects at all to do this. Subprojects are a side info.
25
26 --
27 Best regards,
28 Michał Górny
29 <http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>

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