On Wednesday 05 March 2008 21:51, Dr. Peter Poeml wrote:
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 09:40:26PM +0100, Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
I would suggest to use <origin/> instead of <maintainedin/>.
We actually considered "origin" in the last buildservice meeting, however it was felt that it is too misleading, souding too much like upstream, which isn't the point in those case. Thus, we settled for maintained_in.
For me "origin" doesn't sound like "upstream". It's a copy which clearly has
an origin. If this is origin is the upstream project, a maintained version or
something completely different isn't implied and also isn't really relevant.
"maintainedin" is a bad choice for two reasons: First it doesn't fit
language-wise because it isn't a noun, so trying to use that in context will
create awkward sentences (see for example the wiki page where it's already
used), and second it implies that its meaning has something to do with
maintenance, which actually isn't true. For the Factory use case it might
coincidentally be true, that the project you copy from is the one where
packages are usually maintained, but in general this isn't the case. The
functionality is about copying or branching projects and packages, not if and
how these projects and packages are maintained.
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Cornelius Schumacher