Re: Adding module descriptions

[Cosimo Cecchi <cosimoc gnome org>]

On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 11:46 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote:

> Duplication is certainly bad. We have two ways to go:
> 
>  A) Not put the maintainers list in the DOAP files and have them in 
>     the MAINTAINERS file. The plan is that Pulse will be able to take
>     the .doap files from the module and add in things like release
>     information to create a more complete DOAP file. So maintainers
>     could be added at that step.
> 
>  B) Drop MAINTAINERS and move the information to the DOAP file. 
>     (There would be some sort of transition period where we would
>     support both.)
> 
> I like B) better; I'd rather one file than a collection of little files.

+1 from me too.

Though I remember that the SVN policy required a MAINTAINERS file inside
the module in order to commit to it. Is this still valid for git?
(please forgive me if this has already been brought up in some other
thread).

Cheers,

Cosimo