Dnia 17 września 2015 11:07:43 CEST, "Anthony G. Basile" <bluen...@gentoo.org> napisał(a): >On 9/17/15 4:35 AM, Justin (jlec) wrote: >> On 16/09/15 23:43, Matthew Thode wrote: >>> On 09/16/2015 04:25 PM, Michał Górny wrote: >>>> >>>> So, what are your thoughts for unmessing this? >>>> >>> Herds are groups of developers that can then be mapped to a package. >>> >> Herds are a group of packages, which are maintained my one or more >developers or >> a project team consisting of one or more developers. >> >> >> >Let's begin by eliminating herds. We can do that by absorbing herds >into projects where that makes sense (eg base-system), or expanding the > >herd into the respective maintainers where a clear association between >herd and project does not make sense. An ebuild can then have a ><project> tag in which case it is maintained by all members of a >project >or a maintainer list, or a combination of both. It can also have an >observer tag for devs that want to track that pkg's maintenance while >not being a maintainer.
This is not semantically correct for XML. Type of maintainer should be indicated by subelement or attribute, not three identical elements. > >Aliases can be associated with projects in the same way that ebuilds >are. An alias can either belong to a project, in which case it expands > >to all the project members plus other added emails, or just a free >standing alias with just members. > >Eg1. I'm not on base system, so an pkg with > ><project> > <name>base-system</name> > <email>base-sys...@gentoo.org</email> People aren't going to be happy about this. Their VAX-11s may not be able to handle typing the extra bytes when they do their daily routine of writing 200 metadata.xml files. ></project> ><maintainer> > <name>Anthony G. Basile</name> > <email>bluen...@gentoo.org</email> ></maintainer> ><observer> > <name>Devan Franchini</name> > <email>twitch153@gentoo</email> ><observer> This looks like a serious overkill. Both in the terms of commits and effort required. > >would be maintained by all of base system with alias >base-sys...@gentoo.org and me. twitch153 is listed as just an observer > >of the pkg and would receive emails but not technically be allowed to >maintain the package. The email alias for this pkg is automatically >generated from the metadata.xml. This sounds like a lot of alias changes. What about package removals? Do aliases get removed too? What about synchronization delays? What about all the extra bugzie accounts? > > >Eg2. A "free standing" ebuild could have > ><maintainer> > <name>Anthony G. Basile</name> > <email>bluen...@gentoo.org</email> > <proxy/> ></maintainer> ><maintainer> > <email>b...@bergstroem.nu</email> > <name>Johan Bergström</name> ></maintainer> > >Again the alias for this pkg is automatically generated from the >metadata.xml > >Thoughs? -- Best regards, Michał Górny
