[Distutils] Draft PEP for JSON based metadata published

[Nick Coghlan]

On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
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> On May 28, 2013, at 9:00 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 9:36 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
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> After preliminary reviews by Donald and Daniel, I have now pushed the
> first complete draft of the JSON-based metadata 2.0 proposal to
> python.org
>
> PEP 426 (metadata 2.0): http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0426/
> PEP 440 (versioning): http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0440/
>
>
> Based on some offline feedback from Daniel, I'm going to change the
> current "type" field in the contact metadata to "role". The name of
> the default role will change from "individual" to "contributor", and
> projects will be given freedom to define their own roles beyond the
> predefined ones. (We're actually stealing this from the way contact
> metadata works in PHP's composer).

Hmm, I may actually drop the extensibility idea - it makes the tooling
harder without providing a significant benefit. So just the name
changes for the field and the default value.

Cheers,
Nick.

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