Dnia 2014-12-09, o godz. 16:49:24 "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfri...@gentoo.org> napisał(a):
> Am Dienstag 09 Dezember 2014, 00:46:28 schrieb Michał Górny: > > 2. Convert <herd/> to <maintainer type="herd"/>, > > Could any <person type="developer"/> please explain to me why this additional > xmlfication is of any <improvement type="nonzero"/>? > > As far as I know the typical way to edit metadata.xml files for all of us is > still by hand in a text editor, and I prefer a lot typing > > <herd>kde</herd> > > over > > <maintainer type="herd">kde</maintainer> <maintainer type="herd"> <email>k...@gentoo.org</email> <name>Lovely KDE herd</name> </maintainer> to be more precise. This was already explained in my previous thread. Because: 1. valid <email/> is much more useful than semi-ambiguous <herd/>, 2. bug assignment in order is simpler than magical rules like 'maintainer first, herd second unless description says otherwise', 3. herds.xml is global, metadata.xml is per-repo. Many of us *read* metadata.xml via cat or simple text editor, and don't want to be forced to use slow tools like 'equery' to make semi-meaningful output out of it. And I believe reading happens much more often than writing. That said, vim starts with useful template for metadata.xml. It's easy to copy <maintainer/> element and fill in different e-mail addresses. I'd honestly drop the whole type="" but a few developers insist on keeping the extra disambiguation. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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