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On 02/14/2016 10:53 AM, Patrick Lauer wrote: |
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> On 02/14/2016 07:44 PM, Andreas K. Hüttel wrote: |
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>> On Sunday 14 February 2016 13:18:30 Rich Freeman wrote: |
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>>> Feel free to peruse the various list discussions and council |
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>>> logs. Most of what you're bringing up has come up before. |
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>> Thanks rich0, you seem to be reading my mind. |
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>> |
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>> This is turning into a severe case of "I didn't bother to speak |
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>> up earlier or volunteer to improve something, and now I'm unhappy |
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>> with what was decided and implemented." |
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>> |
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> Silly me for assuming that changes to metadata would not affect |
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> me. Or that tools would be adapted to the changes. |
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> Or that the changes would make sense. |
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> I don't have time to follow every little change, so it's quite |
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> annoying to reverse-engineer this change that apparently is a |
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> compromise that no one actually wanted, and hasn't really been |
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> finished yet. Sigh. |
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> |
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To be fair, if you're working on a piece of software that depends on |
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parsing metadata from ebuild directories, it's reasonable to assume |
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that one would want to keep tabs on metadata.xml or any other topic |
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dealing with the problem space. |
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A simple, "My project depends on metadata.xml and I use it in X way; |
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will I be affected?" may have added to the discussion. |
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As it stands, I believe we're moving to maintainer types. So selecting |
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via `type="project"` should be able to fetch the project that an |
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ebuild belongs to. We (i.e. Gentoo) are in the middle of deciding |
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whether to keep going with DTD or switch to another method (from what |
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I gather, to support this very case), so since you actually depend on |
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these files, why not educate yourself on the conversation and see if |
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you can contribute? It does nobody any good to sit and sulk while the |
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world changes around you. |
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