On 10 September 2014 10:23, Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> I don't understand your concern. I'm only saying we should stop relying > on that stupid out-of-repository herds.xml file and put the e-mail > address directly in metadata.xml. Bugzilla and bug assignment would > work pretty much the same -- except that you wouldn't have to scan one > more file to get the e-mail you're looking for. > That sounds less like you're trying to deprecate the use of herds, and more like you're trying to deprecate the use of herds /in metadata.xml/. The latter strikes me as an easier sell, just the markup is more effort. If it was possible to write <herd>perl</herd> and have some process that automatically upscaled that to a <maintainer> tag, that'd be cool. -- Kent *KENTNL* - https://metacpan.org/author/KENTNL
