On Tue, 9 Dec 2014 12:59:26 +0100
Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >>>>> On Tue, 9 Dec 2014, Michał Górny wrote:
>
> > As for the exact details, I've pretty much decided to go for
> > featurism here, IOW making everyone happy. It also proves how absurd
> > typing maintainers is but if you really feel like having it, sure.
> > The default is 'developer', <herd/> tags would be converted into
> > 'herd' and there are other options including 'proxy-maintainer',
> > 'project', 'team' meant to fit all our wannabies. The diff explains
> > the particular options.
>
> > <!ELEMENT maintainer ( email, (description| name)* )>
> > + <!-- maintainer organizational type -->
> > + <!-- developer: regular Gentoo developer (direct e-mail) -->
> > + <!-- herd: herd (defined in herds.xml) -->
>
> As the previously stated goal was to get rid of herds, I don't
> understand why you want to reintroduce them as a value of the
> type attribute. The existing herd elements should become either
> type="project" or type="team" (everything that is not a project,
> I suppose).
Probably because of the rather verbose criticism brought forward by a
single developer.
jer
