On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 1:25 AM, Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbh...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 6:30 AM, Diego Elio Pettenò <flamee...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I was wondering if we have space already, or if others would feel >> strongly about making space for, maintainer notes in packages' >> metadata.xml. >> > [snip] >> >> What I'm thinking of is having some sort of <maintainernotes> element, >> but not a passive one that has to be tested for, rather something that >> repoman would spit out on the terminal when doing a scan/full. >> >> Comments? > > Why don't we just encourage maintainers to add <!-- --> comments to > metadata.xml? I'd love to have a new element if the data to be stored > in that element would need to be parsed/categorized by external > programs, but otherwise xml comments would work just fine.
And have repoman scan/full print out all <!-- --> comments? I think that's why Diego is suggesting a new XML tag. Matt
