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El mar, 20-03-2012 a las 13:34 +0100, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn |
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escribió: |
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> Pacho Ramos schrieb: |
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> > I would like to see this suggestion discussed if possible: |
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> > About making herds.xml addition mandatory for devs when adding to mail |
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> > alias |
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> > Currently, looks like there are developers that add them to mail aliases |
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> > for "zombie" herds (herds that are empty and unmaintained usually) but |
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> > don't want to add them to herds.xml because they prefer to not be |
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> > considered as officially being part of that hers. |
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> If you mandate that, then those developers will simply resort to |
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> following the mail alias on bugzilla. Not much gained IMHO. |
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> Best regards, |
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> Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn |
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The problem is that, when they are in mail alias, other could tend to |
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assume that packages are maintained by him, while it could not be the |
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case and it can cause confusion :-/ |
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For example, media-optical was a lot of time with a dev listed in alias |
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and, then, some of us assumed he was maintaining them (even if the herd |
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was still shown as empty in herds.xml). Later, if I remember correctly, |
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he dumped himself from mail alias and the herd became orphan without any |
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notice. Another problem is that it's difficult to know the "degree" of |
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herd maintenance when a dev is listed only in mail alias. Is he there to |
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be aware of a few packages inside that herd or is he caring for most of |
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them? |