Jean, from what I know, we can only put one kind of such info into RPMs: the PACKAGER tag. Already now I believe that we merge the three types of authors into one. This is useless information. I'd expect that the length of what you can put into the PACKAGER tag is limited to something.
If you need to know who contributed: use svn log. It will tell you. The changelog is also okay, it contains the name and the date. Who cares about the email? Often people just don't want to add their email in order to reduce the amount of spam they get, and I fully understand that. >From the meaning of the PACKAGER tag: somebody who recompiles an RPM, makes a slight change to some of the API scripts and needs to add this into the CHANGELOG is neither a maintainer, nor a packager. He is a contributor. As such, it is fair that he appears in the changelog, but it is unfair to the real packager (who has maybe put significant effort into the package) to have contributors with minimal merits added with every tiny change. Maybe this info is well represented in the DEB packages and has some merits to be there. I personally find it quite an effort to need to add the changelog entry in its fancy format. If the opkgc dies because I need to add myself also to the packagers list (which I consider unnecessary, as I don't feel like the packager or maintainer, although I had a valid and useful change), this adds even more overhead. And I don't have the feeling that the info is really useful to anybody. Regards, Erich On Wednesday 21 November 2007 23:18, Jean Parpaillon wrote: > DongInn Kim wrote: > > OK, Jean. > > > > I am fine with having the author information for uploaders. BTW, if the > > author is already in the maintainer or upstream list, he/she does not need > > to be in the uploader list in order to put some changelogs, right? > > > > No. There is _one_ author's list. Each author can be either an upstream > author (author of the upstream code), maintainer (main package author) > or uploader (occasional contributor). Changelog entry reference an > author, whatever its category. > > Regards, > Jean > > > Otherwise, I have to think about having the uploader list in config.xml > > again. > > > > Regards, > > > > - DongInn > > > > > > Jean Parpaillon wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> DongInn Kim wrote: > >> > >>> Hi Jean, > >>> > >>> So, are you saying that we have to keep the history of the list of > >>> uploaders in config.xml in order to put their changelog to it? > >>> Can we just assume that the authors on the changelog are the > >>> uploaders? (in fact, it is, right?) > >>> > >>> > >> From my point of view, e-mail, company and years of contributions of an > >> author are important informations, even for an uploader. We can not put > >> all these informations in the changelog, that would cause redundancy > >> with authors' list. That's why I imagined that, in the changelog, > >> author's name is just a pointer to author's informations, like an id, > >> just a little bit more readable. > >> > >> > >>> What is the benefit of having another list for only uploaders? > >>> > >> This is not another list. Just think about changelog entry author like > >> an id. > >> > >> > >> > >>> Is there any particular reason that the uploader list is required on > >>> the debian? > >>> > >>> I am still not really convinced with having another list for the > >>> uploaders but if it is somehow required for opkgc, I don't mind using > >>> another list(uploaders) on config.xml. > >>> > >>> Regards, > >>> > >>> - DongInn > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> Regards, > >> Jean > >> > >> > >>> Jean Parpaillon wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>> Hi, > >>>> > >>>> Le 20.11.2007 19:48, Bernard Li a écrit : > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>> On 11/20/07, Erich Focht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>>> I agree. This is annoying and should be reverted. I don't want to > >>>>>> force > >>>>>> the maintainer to update packages. If someone else can update it > >>>>>> and the maintainer > >>>>>> is in vacation, why not? > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>> In config.xml schema, we have 3 kind of authors: upstream, maintainer > >>>> and uploader. > >>>> Uploaders are people who just modify a little thing without being the > >>>> main maintainer. > >>>> > >>>> The reason of the enforcement is that we need to retrieve author's datas > >>>> (email, insitution and so on) from the changelog entry. > >>>> > >>>> Given this, is there a problem to force people who contribute to a > >>>> package to be added to the authors' list, as uploaders ? > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> Regards, > >>>> Jean > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>> I'll put in my 2 cents worth of agreement with DongInn and Erich. > >>>>> > >>>>> Cheers, > >>>>> > >>>>> Bernard > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Oscar-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel
