* Re: [gentoo-project] Council meeting 2021-07-11 - call for agenda items
@ 2021-07-07 5:08 99% ` Robin H. Johnson
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From: Robin H. Johnson @ 2021-07-07 5:08 UTC (permalink / raw
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On Mon, Jul 05, 2021 at 11:20:43AM +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> The agenda is still open for additional items that the council should
> discuss or vote on. For agenda items, please respond to this message
> on the gentoo-project mailing list.
Hi,
TL;DR:
Please change the format of metadata/AUTHORS to yaml-based list of "key:
[value,...]" where key is the identity of a Gentoo developer, and the
list is copyright holders that the developer has worked for.
Longer:
metadata/AUTHORS was never specified in any GLEP, so I'm asking Council
rather than proposing a GLEP.
I'd like the council to consider improving the formatting of the
metadata/AUTHORS file, per bug #730200. Specifically comment 1:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/730200#c1
The existing format specifies the name of a legal entity, but doesn't
explicitly associate a given developer with that entity. Some
bikeshedding suggested that new entries could associate via the git
commit messages, but that doesn't account for historical entries.
I've contributed to Gentoo while on the employment income and/or
consulting work for at least 9 different organizations in the past 18
years, and some of them should be recognized as potential copyright
holders for my works.
I think the suggested format should become YAML-based for ease of
validation and parsing. I don't have opinions on the format within the
data. Should it be alphabetical or cronological? Should explicit date
ranges be possible?
Example of potential new file, with existing header omitted for brevity.
---
mgorny:
- Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org>
williamh:
- Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
dolsen:
- Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
chutzpah:
- Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
wizardedit:
- Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
zmedico:
- Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
gyakovlev:
- Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
robbat2:
- Technical University Of British Columbia (TechBC)
- Simon Fraser University
- Net-Conex Business Solutions Inc
- Epik Networks Inc
- IsoHunt Web Technologies Inc.
- Global NetOptex Inc
- Merkle: The Gallery Group
- BC Libraries Cooperative 2009
- MappingBook Ltd
- Experq Oy
# vim: ft=yaml:
---
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Robin Hugh Johnson
Gentoo Linux: Dev, Infra Lead, Foundation Treasurer
E-Mail : robbat2@gentoo.org
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