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  • From: Jeremy Blosser <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] MAINTAINER file
  • Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 14:35:12 -0500

On Jun 04, Arwed von Merkatz [v.merkatz AT gmx.net] wrote:
> there's a quite old bug[1] about getting MAINTAINER files in a state
> that we can have per-spell maintainer declarations again.
> The basic idea is that we would have a hierarchy of MAINTAINER files,
> looked up like this:
> - if there's a MAINTAINER file in $grimoire/$section/$spell, use that
> - otherwise, use $grimoire/$section/MAINTAINER if it exists
> - use $grimoire/MAINTAINER
>
> The file itself would just have a list of developers who maintain that
> grimoire/section/spell, with one developer per line in the format
> "full name <the.mail AT domain.org>"
>
> We currently have a few MAINTAINER files, like in the mail section, that
> include spell names + maintainers. The advantage of the above scheme is
> that it can be looked up automatically very easily.

I guess I'm skeptical of the need for yet another spell file vs. just
sticking it in DETAILS at the spell level like we do with BUILD_API, but
whatever the Sorcery team prefers works for me.

We will want some kind of concept of how we're going to keep these from
going stale before we let people start claiming individual spells. It's
too common for people to do an update or two and then disappear, and no one
is sure if they really still maintain it or not. We could only allow
individual spells to have a maintainer if the section they are in has a
maintainer and that person approves. That way the management of the
maintainer status has a hierarchy as well that is more likely to work.
That might kill the point, though.

> If no one has major objections, I'd like to get that format standardized
> (and implemented in gaze maintainer).
>
> [1] http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9010
> --
> Arwed v. Merkatz Source Mage GNU/Linux
> developer
>
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