Re: [gentoo-project] Call for Agenda Items -- Council Meeting 2015-10-11

["Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>]

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Dnia 2015-09-30, o godz. 21:10:17
Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> napisał(a):

> >>>>> On Wed, 30 Sep 2015, Michał Górny wrote:
> 
> > 2. We deprecate <herd/> in metadata.xml and assign herds/teams/projects
> > via e-mail addresses. This keeps partial backwards compatibility with
> > existing tools and solves the bug assignment issue.
> 
> I'm pretty sure I've mentioned this before, but seems that you have
> missed it. IMHO matching projects via their e-mail address is not a
> good idea, because some projects have an address <project>-bugs@g.o or
> dev-<project>@g.o which makes guessing the project's name (and finding
> the project page) more difficult. Therefore, projects should be
> matched by their proper name.

And why would you need to guess that? Wiki project names are already
disjoint from herds.xml <name/>s, so I don't see a problem with that.

> > 2a. If someone really cares about this, we add an extra attribute or
> > element which indicates the 'kind' of <maintainer/>. Otherwise, we just
> > match herds.xml by e-mail address.
> 
> Why don't we follow the KISS principle and replace <herd> by <project>
> in metadata.xml? That is, create a project for every herd.

Because this:

1. breaks backwards compatibility,

2. doesn't change anything but the name which is the most meaningless,
waste-of-time change you could have proposed. if you do this, please
count me out.

> Personally, I find this:
> 
>   <project>portage</project>
> 
> easier to read than this:
> 
>   <maintainer type="project">
>     <email>dev-portage@gentoo.org<email>
>   </maintainer>

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny
<http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>

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