Re: [gentoo-project] Council meeting 2021-07-11 - call for agenda items

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Wed, 07 Jul 2021, Robin H Johnson wrote:

> TL;DR:
> Please change the format of metadata/AUTHORS to yaml-based list of "key:
> [value,...]" where key is the identity of a Gentoo developer, and the
> list is copyright holders that the developer has worked for.

Have you run this by the Sony people? The current AUTHORS file is a
compromise resulting from long discussions, so I'd rather have any
potential issues resolved before the Council votes on any change.

> I think the suggested format should become YAML-based for ease of
> validation and parsing. I don't have opinions on the format within the
> data. Should it be alphabetical or cronological? Should explicit date
> ranges be possible?

Using the Gentoo uid as the key would imply that contributors other than
developers cannot be listed in the file. Is this a valid assumption?

Ulrich