Dnia 2015-10-02, o godz. 16:42:39 "Andreas K. Huettel" napisał(a): > Am Wednesday 30 September 2015, 22:21:27 schrieb Andreas K. Huettel: > > Here's my alternative proposal how to solve this. It takes a slightly more > > radical approach and tries to replace the old mess not with a newer mess but > > with a true simplification. Expanded from [1]. > > > > Since the syncing of e-mail aliases creates more complications, how about > focussing on the easier points first? Let's skip d) and f) for now and stick > with > > > a) Remove the word "herd" from docs and specifications. > > > > b) Package is "in herd" -> package is "maintained by project" > > > > c) In metadata.xml, replace x -> y > > This needs (as Ulrich has already pointed out) a short-name y for each > > project, to be defined on its wiki page. > > E.g., "Gentoo KDE project" has shortname kde. What's the gain? Does it justify breaking every tool dealing with metadata.xml out there? Are you going to fix package managers, gentoolkit, gentoopm, packages.gentoo.org (in both versions), willikins, Funtoo scripts...? Or is this going to be another smart move which forces others to do extra work just because someone didn't like the name? > > e) Since per GLEP 39 only developers can be project members, let's introduce > > "contributors" which are listed on the wiki project page together with the > > members. > > > > We can think about more simplifications or unifications later on. -- Best regards, Michał Górny