One missing piece on git.gnome.org right now is to be able to set the
descriptions for http://git.gnome.org/cgit/. The current method is
"ask someone in the gitadmin group to do it for you", and they
echo "Next generation GNOME desktop shell" > /git/gnome-shell.git/descripotion
Some ideas about how it could work:
A) We could have another special command to set the description
ssh git.gnome.org set-description gnome-shell "Next generation GNOME
desktop shell"
This is really trivial to implement, but means no version control, no
logging
of who changed what to what, etc.
B) We could use a DESCRIPTION file checked into the module and pull that
out in a hook.
This clutters every project with another file containing almost nothing
C) We could add a line to MAINTAINERS
Description: Next generation GNOME desktop shell
Sort of weird to have in maintainers. I also don't know what parses
MAINTAINERS
and would have to be adapted.
D) We could revive the DOAP idea
I thought it was a quite reasonable idea, but it generated a fair bit of
hostility that I don't fully understand.
Hmm, we could make:
ssh git.gnome.org set-description gnome-shell "Next generation GNOME
desktop shell"
read your maintainers file, combine it with the provided description,
generate
a skeleton DOAP file, check it into your module in the MASTER branch... Or
slightly less crackrock, we could have
ssh git.gnome.org generate-doap gnome-shell > gnome-shell.rdf
And you have to edit the skeleton yourself and check it in. If we didn't
require
people to write a <description/> then it would only be a few seconds per
module,
and that mostly in coming up with a short description for your module.
Filling
in your home page takes no time or thought.
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