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On Mon, 23 Mar 2015 14:49:44 -0400 Tim Harder wrote: |
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> On 2015-03-23 13:48, Panagiotis Christopoulos wrote: |
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> > You want to have a herd for that or something in metadata.xml that would raise a |
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> > flag that the package can be freely touched/maintained by anyone? |
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> I'd rather have a herd so people can easily scan via euscan or similar to see |
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> the entire array of pkgs falling into the space. Abusing another metadata field |
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> doesn't give the same visibility or would require changes from tools. |
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> For example, bugs assigned to the herd or with it in CC could be fixed by |
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> anyone without having to ask for permission. How would that be handled easily |
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> when using an extra metadata field? |
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Assume that half of the tree joined this idea. Mail traffic on this |
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herd will be insane. |
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I'm in favour of a special tag idea, equery tool may be updated to |
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show it on `equery meta $pkgname` calls. |
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Best regards, |
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Andrew Savchenko |
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