On 10/12/14 06:35, Luca Barbato wrote: > On 09/12/14 17:34, Michał Górny wrote: > >> I'm all for keeping it simple. However, backwards compatibility makes >> it hard to keep things simple. I'd love to do, say, metadata.yml >> supporting stuff like: >> >> - maintainer: f...@gentoo.org, b...@gentoo.org >> >> - maintainer: >> - name: Foo Bar >> email: f...@gentoo.org >> - b...@gentoo.org >> >> (pseudo-code, not sure if it's 100% valid YAML) >> > > Would be neat though. > > Back to the discussion would be nice to have just proj...@gentoo.org > instead of complex mappings.
This would be by far the easiest solution. Some herds already have an alias like this eg. freedesktop -> freedesktop-bugs. Much easier than mass-editing every single metadata.xml with what amounts to a cosmetic change.
