Thanks a lot David for working on this, the patch has been tested and was
included into the relevant script.

cheers,

Andrea


2013/8/22 David King <amigad...@amigadave.com>

> On 2013-08-20 21:23, Shaun McCance <sha...@gnome.org> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 2013-08-21 at 00:15 +0200, Andrea Veri wrote:
>>
>>> I noticed that many repositories are not using the <name> tag
>>> correctly into the respective .doap files. The <name> tag should
>>> possibly match the repository name (i.e gnome-shell.git -->
>>> gnome-shell, gnome-user-docs.git --> gnome-user-docs) for two main
>>> reasons:
>>>
>>
>> That's not how the rest of the world uses the name property. If you
>> want the location of the repository, that's what the location property
>> of the Repository class is for. Or use a custom property in our DOAP
>> extension namespace.
>>
>
> I just made a change to add the repository information to the Cheese DOAP
> file:
>
> https://git.gnome.org/browse/**cheese/commit/?id=**
> ba6f9e564cc828d197bf89a7d71e7e**a697fb3132<https://git.gnome.org/browse/cheese/commit/?id=ba6f9e564cc828d197bf89a7d71e7ea697fb3132>
>
> It is a few more lines than using the name property, but has the benefit
> that other public clones of the repository have the upstream git location
> included.
>
> Looking at the mirror script, it seems that using the DOAP name property
> for the repository name can be avoided entirely. I filed a bug about this,
> with a patch:
>
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/**show_bug.cgi?id=706562<https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=706562>
>
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-- 
Cheers,

Andrea

Debian Developer,
Fedora / EPEL packager,
GNOME Sysadmin,
GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman

Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/~av
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