The about field

The .mngit.yml contains a field about that contains some additional information concerning the software:

  • An email for corresponding authors (denoted by <email>)

  • A long description of the software (denoted by <longdesc>).

    Warning

    desc sub-field must be formatted according to restructuredText markup syntax. Empty lines are not allowed.

These informations are provided as follows (see Lst. 1)

$ mngit about --contact <email> --desc <details>
Lst. 2 Status of the .mngit.yml file
software:
   desc: <shortdesc>
   name: <name>
 about:
   contact: <email>
   desc: <longdesc>