On Thu, Apr 7, 2022 at 11:42 AM Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > Hello, > > Right now we're keeping both email addresses (obligatory) and names > (optional) for downstream maintainers in metadata.xml. The way I see > it, there are three problems with that: > > 1. As noticed on IRC lately, a few devs haven't been listing their names > at all, resulting in these names being missing from packages.g.o. > > 2. Not all names are listed consistently. This is especially the case > for projects. When you want to group everything by maintainer, which > name should be used? > > 3. In the end, listing the same names all over the place is a lot of > redundancy. > > > I'd like to propose that we deprecate <name/> for downstream > maintainers, and instead work towards using an additional mapping from > maintainer email addresses to their names. > > a. For projects, we can simply use projects.xml. We already require > that all type="project" maintainers correspond to entries > in projects.xml, so we should be good here. > > b. For human maintainers, I think we can use metadata/AUTHORS. This is > pretty much killing two birds with one stone -- we could finally getting > the file more complete, and at the same time use it to provide names for > maintainers. > > While keeping names in metadata.xml has the advantage that they are > immediately available (provided that they are actually listed there), > I don't think this is really a show-stopper.
Sounds like a good plan to me.
