Well, Its been a few days. The ML has been completely silent on this issue.
I received quite a few comments on IRC, mostly positive. I did have one or two people who did not like the proposal, but by the end of conversation they had come around. So... not really sure what to say here. I was hoping there would be some good discussion on the ML so that I/we could definitively say we were either adopting some changed format or simply leaving it alone. Maybe I simply haven't waited long enough, and someone may still speak up. A couple of people have already gone ahead and changed their info files. I think I will do the same (Its my proposal so of course *I* like the idea.). The new format should be "backwards compatible" with the old with respect to any script that might be reading it, so maybe there is no harm done. Fwiw... since there has been no discussion of the group field... I am unsure what group I would belong to. Using the old definition of "someone who is interested in contributing to E as a whole, not just one project/subsystem" I feel I belong to the "Core" group. If someone feels this is in error... please let me know, as I am interested in "where I fit in". -ravenlock On 06/14/2007 12:45, Ravenlock wrote: > Hello, > > (fwiw... while this is not particularly development related, its > developer comments I am interested in so I sent it to the Devel ML) > > There seems to be some disagreement on the intention of the fields in > the info.txt files. This seems to be made worse by the fact that we are > now parsing these files for website content. IMHO, I think parsing them > is a Good Thing (TM). > > So I'd like to open a discussion on format changes. Here is what I am > thinking might be useful: > > Login: CVS Login > IRC Nick: > Name: <First> [[<Middle>] <Last>] > Location: > E-Mail: [-]<e-mail address> > WWW: URL > Managing: If you can say "Damnit stop doing that!!! This is *MY* > project!" List it here. If you are the original > author(s) of some subsystem of E, list it. > Contributing: If you have successfuly made changes to it. Feel free > to list it here. > Group: Must be in one or more groups. > Platform: Platform(s) you run E17 on. Your *Preferred* one listed > first please. > > > Notes: > 1) Anything with more than one item should be comma separated. > WWW, managing, contributing, platform, etc. > > 2) The hyphen which precedes the e-mail address should prevent it > from being posted by any scripts to any sites. Useful for when > you do in fact desire for your e-mail to be available to folks... > just don't want it on the web site. > > 3) I think platform is a nice addition, as I frequently hear pple on IRC > asking if E works on this platform or that, or if it works well. I > think it is nice to know who is running a similar platform as you so > that you might converse about issues specific to that platform. I know > I would like a list of the FreeBSD users. :) > > 4) Groups might be Core, EWL, ETK, Themes, WebSite, whatever we decide. > Poeple *must* be in one or more groups. This will help with dynamically > constructing the peoples page on the website. Additionally, I have > always thought of the "Core" group as meaning "Senior devs with some > amount of authority over E17 as a whole". That philosophy comes from my > FreeBSD associations. So it may not in fact mean as much. But, I am > wondering if we could actually create such a group. I think it would be > useful for people (be them a "junior" developer like myself, or users of > E) when seeking help on an issue or possibly arbitration of some > disagreement. So I wonder if those in such a group shouldn't be > appointed by raster, or agreed upon by the devs, or simply entered into > after so many days/months/years of service to E? A valid set of groups > must be identified or it will not be possible to use this field for > dynamic web creation. Just thoughts. > > There also seems to be a group of contributors whom we would like to > give credit to, yet they do not have cvs access. Might we setup one > directory to house info files for them in. possibly just naming the > files IRCNick.txt and use the above format? Then they could get parsed, > and put in the groups needed (if we use groups). > > Just some thoughts. Hoping people will comment. I have no idea if a > change is really needed... but seems like it could be good to discuss. > -- Regards, Ravenlock ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
