On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
<flameeyes@...> wrote:
> Luis Francisco Araujo <araujo@g.o> writes:
>
>> Unless a team can maintain several herds, I find the term 'herd'
>> confusing and better understood as 'team' instead.
>
> +1 on this. I always thought that if almost every dev misuses the term
> herd, it was because the term had to be changed, rather than the devs
> corrected...

Till very recently, I too misunderstood the meaning of the term. I
think one problem is that the term really hasn't been defined anywhere
(at least I couldn't find a proper definition on [1]).

I really do like the herds terminology because it is unique and has
become a Gentoo-ism of sorts. It also is reminiscent of Larry, in some
sense (herds -> grazing -> moo -> cow -> larry). :)

[1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/metastructure/herds/

Just my ${currency} 0.02,
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