On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 6:37 AM, Patrick Lauer <patr...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > The new schema collapses herd (err, project!) into maintainers (err, > sustainers ... staff ... linchpin?) > And maintainer is defined as: > <!ELEMENT maintainer ( email, (description| name)* )> > > Which means that only email is mandatory. So instead of search by name > you are now required to search by email. > And it leads to inconsistent (partial) duplication: Some metadata.xml > entries carry Name, some Description, and some are Email only. > > For example for gentoolkit this means that instead of search by name now > it needs to be search by email, and the previous search by name > functionality requires herds.xml, err, projects.xml to figure out the > name of a project. Which might not match the one in metadata.xml!
This is all correct and intentional. I actually didn't care for having the name in metadata.xml for exactly that reason, but the intent of having it there (and optional) was to make the file more human-readable. Tools that intend to search by name should obtain the name from the authoritative source (ultimately the Wiki, but mirrored in projects.xml). If we made metadata.xml the source of project names then your search would break anytime a maintainer spells a name differently. If we imagine building a bunch of tools to prevent this from happening, we might as well build a bunch of tools that just references the name from projects.xml (which is what they'd have to do to prevent the breakage anyway). Feel free to peruse the various list discussions and council logs. Most of what you're bringing up has come up before. -- Rich
