Gentoo Archives: gentoo-science

From: Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o>
To: gentoo-science@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-science] Gentoo Science next meeting agenda - 3) sub-herds
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2010 16:12:55
Message-Id: 20101206161239.GC13981@comet.mayo.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-science] Gentoo Science next meeting agenda - 3) sub-herds by "Sébastien Fabbro"
1 On 11:57 Sun 05 Dec , Sébastien Fabbro wrote:
2 > Kacper Kowalik wrote:
3 >
4 > > As we can see
5 > > * sci-physics \in sci
6 > > * sci-chemistry \in sci (except Donnie)
7 > > * sci-biology \in sci
8 > > * sci-mathematics \in sci (except Rafael)
9
10 What you've proven is that they should definitely not be merged, because
11 not everyone in sci is in every sub-team.
12
13 > Splitting herds is not only be about email receiving which can be
14 > easily turned on by adding an email to the alias or turned off with
15 > procmail rules.
16 > I was thinking also about web page, profiles, and may be as Rafael
17 > showed it would create a sense of more accessible community. I can see
18 > how people might discard the possibility of devship by seeing a few
19 > hundreds packages and bugs in one giant herd.
20 >
21 > For those of us interested in all science packages, we could simply put
22 > sci as alias of all sci sub herds, or even create QA sci.
23
24 I would be on the sci alias because I would care about stuff that's
25 relevant to *all* sci, not to one of the many subsets of it.
26
27 --
28 Thanks,
29 Donnie
30
31 Donnie Berkholz
32 Sr. Developer, Science Team
33 Gentoo Linux
34 Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com