>>>>> On Mon, 29 Sep 2014, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > On IRC we seem to have found some consensus about metadata.xml:
> 1 ) We should > 1a) deprecate the <herd> tag in metadata.xml (that's 17,856 files or > so?) in favour of > 1b) a conversion to their respective <maintainer> tags > 1c) where the <email> tag serves the same purpose as <herd> but > bypasses herds.xml completely by just using the intended alias and > not the name of the herd (which some developers might want to keep > in the <name> tag for whatever purpose). > [...] > Corrections and comment, please. This will lose the information if a maintainer is a project/team or an individual developer, which I think is still useful. Could we keep this information somehow? Maybe by adding an attribute to the <maintainer> tag, or by using <project> or <team> instead of <name> as the subtag? Ulrich
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