On Jan 18, 2008 1:08 PM, Emmanuele Bassi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 12:04 +0100, Patryk Zawadzki wrote: > > > > <Project xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"; > > > xmlns:foaf="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/"; > > > xmlns="http://usefulinc.com/ns/doap#";> > > > [...] > > > > What are the real benefits of DOAP (sounds like "dope," nice)? If it's > > meant for machines to query against then a database would be more > > useful. > this would be a database. DOAP is a just a human/machine readable > storage for data, which gets parsed and used as the source for > generating other stuff, like project pages and checks like Olav > proposed.
I mean proper RDBMS. Once you get that in place you can generate DOAP/RDF/XML/whatever on the fly with little to no effort. > > > if I'd say something about DOAP is that sometimes is overly verbose; but > > > it's quite descriptive and easy to parse/write, even by humans. most of > > > this data is not even meant to be changed often: the only sections that > > > changes regularly is the releases one - and that would be automagically > > > updated by the install-module script if I understood Olav's mail > > > correctly. > > Again, what is the use case for DOAP inside GNOME? > have you read the email Olav sent? Yes, see above. I clearly see the need of a better solution to MAINTAINERS problem but I think DOAP is parallel to that. It could be useful to deliver information outside but I believe GNOME would benefit from something else more on the inside. -- Patryk Zawadzki PLD Linux Distribution _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
