Robin H. Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 04:22:02PM +0200, Tiziano M?ller wrote: >> One GLEP introduces new elements 'team', 'dev' and 'proxy': >> http://dev.gentoo.org/~dev-zero/glep/glep-new_metadata_elements.html > 1. With the addition of <maintainer><team>cpp</team></maintainer>, why > do we still need <herd> elements?
I'd see the herd element as kind of tag which could be used to search for packages (given the corresponding tools). > > 2. "<gentoo:dev>dev-zero</gentoo:dev>". That's not possible to validate > sanely. The following would be better: > <maintainer><dev project="foobar">moodev</dev></maintainer> > > With the default value of the 'project' attribute being 'gentoo'. > That's another good solution. The possibility I mentioned is rather suitable for others wanting to extend our metadata.xml format (and still be able to validate the content of gentoo:dev against our list of devs). -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
