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  • [gentoo-dev] Missing inside metadata.xmls

    From mscardovi@icloud.com@21:1/5 to All on Mon Dec 19 22:10:02 2022
    Hi everyone!

    Today I’ve made a simple try to see how many packages miss the <name></name> pattern inside metadata.xml and the result was rather unexpected. Without counting the category/metadata.xml and maintainer-needed there are 1060 metadata.xml that does not
    contain it.
    You can easily verify that using the following command: egrep -RiL “<name>|<!-- maintainer-needed -->” ./*/*/metadata.xml
    I know it’s not actually imperative to add it but actually strongly suggested to maintain things consistent. What do you think about that? Is something You find important to stick?

    Best regards,

    Marco Scardovi (scardracs)

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  • From Michael Orlitzky@21:1/5 to mscardovi@icloud.com on Tue Dec 20 00:00:01 2022
    On Mon, 2022-12-19 at 22:05 +0100, mscardovi@icloud.com wrote:

    I know it’s not actually imperative to add it but actually strongly suggested to maintain things consistent. What do you think about
    that? Is something You find important to stick?


    The problem is that the name is redundant for Gentoo developers. It's
    often helpful to have it for other types (e.g. proxy) developers, but I
    find it a bit pointless to copy/paste "Michael Orlitzky" into hundreds
    of ebuilds when it can easily be deduced from "mjo@gentoo.org."

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  • From Marco Scardovi@21:1/5 to All on Tue Dec 20 08:30:01 2022
    I know it’s not actually imperative to add it but actually strongly
    suggested to maintain things consistent. What do you think about
    that? Is something You find important to stick?


    The problem is that the name is redundant for Gentoo developers. It's
    often helpful to have it for other types (e.g. proxy) developers, but I
    find it a bit pointless to copy/paste "Michael Orlitzky" into hundreds
    of ebuilds when it can easily be deduced from "mjo@gentoo.org."

    Normally I copy/paste my whole metadata.xml and then change things I’m interested in (because, as proxy-maintainer, is faster to do so instead of copy maintainer twice and modify for me/proxy maint) but yes, I totally understand your point, thanks for
    your answer :)

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