Hello,
(fwiw... while this is not particularly development related, its
developer comments I am interested in so I sent it to the Devel ML)
There seems to be some disagreement on the intention of the fields in
the info.txt files. This seems to be made worse by the fact that we are
now parsing these files for website content. IMHO, I think parsing them
is a Good Thing (TM).
So I'd like to open a discussion on format changes. Here is what I am
thinking might be useful:
Login: CVS Login
IRC Nick:
Name: <First> [[<Middle>] <Last>]
Location:
E-Mail: [-]<e-mail address>
WWW: URL
Managing: If you can say "Damnit stop doing that!!! This is *MY*
project!" List it here. If you are the original
author(s) of some subsystem of E, list it.
Contributing: If you have successfuly made changes to it. Feel free
to list it here.
Group: Must be in one or more groups.
Platform: Platform(s) you run E17 on. Your *Preferred* one listed
first please.
Notes:
1) Anything with more than one item should be comma separated.
WWW, managing, contributing, platform, etc.
2) The hyphen which precedes the e-mail address should prevent it
from being posted by any scripts to any sites. Useful for when
you do in fact desire for your e-mail to be available to folks...
just don't want it on the web site.
3) I think platform is a nice addition, as I frequently hear pple on IRC
asking if E works on this platform or that, or if it works well. I
think it is nice to know who is running a similar platform as you so
that you might converse about issues specific to that platform. I know
I would like a list of the FreeBSD users. :)
4) Groups might be Core, EWL, ETK, Themes, WebSite, whatever we decide.
Poeple *must* be in one or more groups. This will help with dynamically
constructing the peoples page on the website. Additionally, I have
always thought of the "Core" group as meaning "Senior devs with some
amount of authority over E17 as a whole". That philosophy comes from my
FreeBSD associations. So it may not in fact mean as much. But, I am
wondering if we could actually create such a group. I think it would be
useful for people (be them a "junior" developer like myself, or users of
E) when seeking help on an issue or possibly arbitration of some
disagreement. So I wonder if those in such a group shouldn't be
appointed by raster, or agreed upon by the devs, or simply entered into
after so many days/months/years of service to E? A valid set of groups
must be identified or it will not be possible to use this field for
dynamic web creation. Just thoughts.
There also seems to be a group of contributors whom we would like to
give credit to, yet they do not have cvs access. Might we setup one
directory to house info files for them in. possibly just naming the
files IRCNick.txt and use the above format? Then they could get parsed,
and put in the groups needed (if we use groups).
Just some thoughts. Hoping people will comment. I have no idea if a
change is really needed... but seems like it could be good to discuss.
--
Regards,
Ravenlock
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