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From: Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] The Dreaded herd tag
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 16:14:21
Message-Id: 1162224593.10659.21.camel@inertia.twi-31o2.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] The Dreaded herd tag by George Shapovalov
1 On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 08:28 +0200, George Shapovalov wrote:
2 > Wanna guess how many of those happen to be stale?
3
4 I would suspect fewer than you think. As an example, I have a few
5 packages which belong to no herd, but have me listed as maintainer.
6 Many of the no-herd packages are the same. Not being grouped with other
7 packages doesn't mean it is unmaintained.
8
9 So this bears the question, what is the proper solution?
10
11 Make <herd> optional?
12 Force the maintainer's email into <herd> for packages without a herd?
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15 Chris Gianelloni
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Re: [gentoo-dev] The Dreaded herd tag Jim Ramsay <lack@g.o>