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From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] metdata.dtd should require <herd/>
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:36:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55e0be1b0912231036q533f43ccx2425383804da561@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B288301.5030808@gentoo.org>

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 7:49 AM, Rémi Cardona <remi@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Le 15/12/2009 16:19, Peter Volkov a écrit :
>>
>> we will force all metadata.xml files have strict order of tags: first
>> <herd/>  then other tags. Currently there are about 200 ebuilds with
>> different order http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=279206#c4 .
>
> Others and I actually make use of the order in metadata.xml. The first entry
> is the one that will get bugs assignment in bugzilla, and the others will
> get CCed.
>
> So if we're really going with herds first in metadata.xml, could we have an
> optional attribute - or whatever else you see fit - to convey that _this_
> herd/maintainer is the "main" herd/maintainer?
>
> Thanks
>

Perhaps we should create a schema to validate the file. XMLSchema (or
any of the other standards) allows for much more flexibility in
specifying these things. Btw. I did not design the metadata DTD for
order to be significant. The only priority is that maintainer goes
before herd, that's all.

Paul

-- 
Paul de Vrieze



  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-23 20:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-07 11:56 [gentoo-dev] irregular metdata.xml check Thilo Bangert
2009-12-07 12:13 ` Ulrich Mueller
2009-12-07 13:20   ` Thilo Bangert
2009-12-07 17:04 ` Hans de Graaff
2009-12-07 20:20   ` Thilo Bangert
2009-12-15 15:19     ` [gentoo-dev] metdata.dtd should require <herd/> Peter Volkov
2009-12-15 17:16       ` Alex Alexander
2009-12-15 17:27       ` Mike Frysinger
2009-12-15 17:48       ` [gentoo-dev] " Jonathan Callen
2009-12-16  6:49       ` [gentoo-dev] " Rémi Cardona
2009-12-23 18:36         ` Paul de Vrieze [this message]
2009-12-24 12:37           ` Richard Freeman
2009-12-24 16:12             ` Jeroen Roovers

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