Comments on: Requiring DOAP instead of MAINTAINERS file

By: ovitters

ovitters — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:35:00 +0000

sb: It needs to readable enough to be editable. For normal users/developers there will eventually be some website where this is shown in a nice layout, etc. My goal is using this data in the infrastructure, etc.

By: sb

sb — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:28:06 +0000

Ow! My eyes my eyes!! That is one hell of an ugly file.

Wouldn’t it be better to keep this information in human-readable files? I don’t mind a file being machine readable too, but not at the expense of humans being able to glance at it and quickly see the information they want.

I give this idea a -1. I would reconsider if you could find a less hostile file format.

By: Emmanuele Bassi

Emmanuele Bassi — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:09:35 +0000

I’ve been maintaining a DOAP file in Clutter, and it’s quite easy to dump somewhere, read via a cron job and generate a project page from a template.

also, if the install-module script just added the releases itself it would be even easier.

By: Mathias Hasselmann

Mathias Hasselmann — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:43:22 +0000

Hell! No! No chance that I’ll maintain such a bloat!

There are reasons, some ideas are not adopted. In the case of DOAP: Far too much work for no use.