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David, On 2005 Jan 25 , at 09.11, David Berry wrote: > Was it a policy decision *not* to have the owners listed in the > software status page on the wiki? Welllll, yes, but my policy decision.... One of my actions was to merge the two package tables into one, and part of that was to add a <role>owner</role> element to those <person> elements in component.xml.in which required them -- that is, to transfer this maintainer/owner information from the table to the component.xml.in file within the component, where it probably more naturally belongs. Given that, it avoids duplication (and thus inconsistency (and thus the end of civilisation)) if that information is not additionally in the package table in package-info.csv. > Or should we be editing owners into the > page as we add copyright info? If owners are not listed here, is there > any > web page which *does* include owners? So I think we should not be editing into the page owners of components which are in CVS. Indeed, as that page remarks, we should not be editing that page piecemeal at all, but instead editing the repository file etc/info/package-info.csv and substituting the wiki page with the generated result. This is a faff, indeed. Perhaps it would be better to simply edit the .csv file and have a static web page regenerated nightly (I could knock that up promptly). Better still might be to add <copyright> and <supported> elements to component.xml, and take the information completely away from the .csv file. Those items which are not in CVS we could probably best consign to a historical-interest-only static web page (still in etc/info). Hmmm. That would require some way of distinguishing different java/sources items (which wouldn't be `components' in the original sense). Shouldn't be a big problem. Malcolm: I'm currently generating the `recent commits' page into cvs.starlink.ac.uk/~nxg/. Are you planning any location in the new web order for such static/generated web pages? Norman -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Norman Gray : Physics & Astronomy, Glasgow University, UK http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman/ : www.starlink.ac.uk