Am Montag, den 21.01.2008, 12:16 +0100 schrieb Olav Vitters: > On Jan 18, 2008 9:49 AM, Olav Vitters <ovitters gmail com> wrote: > > Summary: I'd like replace the MAINTAINERS requirement by doap files. > > > > I have a partial script that I want to expand to include as much info > > as I can possibly can add automatically (everything until the 'and others' > > above). > > Just highlighting the parts that have been missed. I'd appreciate, but > it is *not at all required* to do any work after the script changes > the format from MAINTAINERS to doap. The field that I *require* is the > maintainer part (again: will be converted). All the other fields are > extra's. Nice to have, really appreciated if provided, but not > required. So I understand even less, why you want us to use a file format which as several technical problems: - hard to read and write - redundant with AUTHORS file - redundant with Changelog, NEWS and FTP - no support for git or bzr You want additional information for svn-commits-list, web-sites? You want to provide the service of hosting DOAP files? So keep MAINTAINERS (and AUTHORS, and whatever DOAP related information we already have), add some PROJECT-INFO file that lists the missing pieces of information, and generate the DOAP file. > The script will fill in a lot of fields, as explained in my initial > email. Any info that could be fetched from somewhere will be included > / updated automatically. In practice I don't think you'll notice on > the short term. What about new modules? First of all they have to copy boilerplate code, to get a valid DOAP file - very bad engineering. Second they have to lie at many fields, as new modules usually do not have a Website or Bugzilla and such yet... > I know changing this part of the infrastructure (maintainers vs doap) > for the second time is not ideal. However, some things are just needed > to have a better infrastructure. E.g. Mango would not work without > knowing the maintainers in some machine parseable way. Mango rocks, and MAINTAINERS indeed was a good idea. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Hasselmann <mathias hasselmann gmx de> Openismus GmbH: http://www.openismus.com/ Personal Site: http://taschenorakel.de/
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