On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 02:06:40PM -0500, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > My main concern is that we have been coming up with 'standard' > proposals for 20 years and we can't seem to get more than any 4 > maintainers to agree to what that means... even if they do the same > work in Debian/SuSE/Arch etc. Too many idiosyncratic techniques which > they use to keep themselves sane or working in whatever environments > they have. > > At this point, I will take whatever we can standardize on even if it > is clay tablets mailed to Babylon (ok maybe something a little less > archaic) Likely we can get the GNU project involved here. A simple "METADATA" file in the top level of each project containing the information we need in a format to be decided. If you think about it, we cannot even get the *name or version* of a project mechanically at the moment, which is incredible really. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
