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>>>>> On Mon, 29 Sep 2014, Jeroen Roovers wrote: |
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> On IRC we seem to have found some consensus about metadata.xml: |
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> 1 ) We should |
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> 1a) deprecate the <herd> tag in metadata.xml (that's 17,856 files or |
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> so?) in favour of |
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> 1b) a conversion to their respective <maintainer> tags |
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> 1c) where the <email> tag serves the same purpose as <herd> but |
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> bypasses herds.xml completely by just using the intended alias and |
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> not the name of the herd (which some developers might want to keep |
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> in the <name> tag for whatever purpose). |
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> [...] |
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> Corrections and comment, please. |
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This will lose the information if a maintainer is a project/team or an |
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individual developer, which I think is still useful. |
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Could we keep this information somehow? Maybe by adding an attribute |
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to the <maintainer> tag, or by using <project> or <team> instead of |
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<name> as the subtag? |
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Ulrich |
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