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[Olivier Dony <odo@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 09/03/2013 09:17 AM, Lorenzo Battistini wrote:
> how are multiple module authors handled by the new apps platform?
>
> We thought we had to use a list of strings, but this doesn't seem to be
> considered:
> https://apps.openerp.com/apps/7.0/account_vat_period_end_statement/
>
> Will multiple authors be supported? Or is it better if we just write a
> simple string?


There is currently no special provision in OpenERP Apps for handling 
multi-valued manifest entries. Module manifests are simply parsed by the 
standard ir.module.module.get_values_from_terp() which expects plain strings 
for `author` and `maintainer`, and a list of strings for `contributors`.

For modules with multiple authors, it makes sense to set the author field to a 
string containing a comma-separated list of authors. Search queries use 
full-text criterions including the author field, so that  will work as 
expected: a search for "foo" will match modules authored by "foo, bar".
There is no "group by author" anymore.

Note that the Apps front-end does not currently display the `maintainer` and 
`contributors` fields.