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From: Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] media-optical and net-zope herds are empty
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2012 13:34:51
Message-Id: 1330868052.10135.61.camel@belkin4
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] media-optical and net-zope herds are empty by Pacho Ramos
1 El dom, 04-03-2012 a las 14:31 +0100, Pacho Ramos escribió:
2 > El dom, 04-03-2012 a las 14:06 +0100, Ulrich Mueller escribió:
3 > > >>>>> On Sun, 04 Mar 2012, Pacho Ramos wrote:
4 > >
5 > > > Even if they have some people in their mail aliases, looks like
6 > > > herds are empty.
7 > >
8 > > Sorry for nitpicking, but a "herd" is a collection of packages. So the
9 > > herds are not empty, but they have no maintainers.
10 >
11 > Well, I knew what a "herd" means exactly per devmanual ;), but, in real
12 > world, that "collection of packages" is really orphan (are like
13 > maintainer-needed packages but, what is worse, out of radar as they are
14 > not listed as orphan at all)
15 >
16
17 Also, after re-reading devmanual, being 100% strict that collection of
18 packages need to be "associated to a set of maintainers" (that is
19 currently not the case :( )
20
21 > (Personally I completely disagree with that sense of "herd" but, as
22 > looks the meaning is there since the beginning...)
23 >
24 > >
25 > > > If nobody volunteers to join to them, I think we should drop that
26 > > > herds and move their packages to maintainer-needed in a week or so.
27 > >
28 > > > What do you think?
29 > >
30 > > How many packages are in these two herds? If it's only a few, then
31 > > this certainly makes sense.
32 > >
33 > > Ulrich
34 > >
35 > >
36 >
37 > Only two for net-zope, but many more for, for example, sgml and
38 > media-optical.

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