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From: Tim Harder <radhermit@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] collab herd for cooperative pkg maintenance
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 18:49:56
Message-Id: 20150323184944.GA8696@oregano.home.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] collab herd for cooperative pkg maintenance by Panagiotis Christopoulos
1 On 2015-03-23 13:48, Panagiotis Christopoulos wrote:
2 > You want to have a herd for that or something in metadata.xml that would raise a
3 > flag that the package can be freely touched/maintained by anyone?
4
5 I'd rather have a herd so people can easily scan via euscan or similar to see
6 the entire array of pkgs falling into the space. Abusing another metadata field
7 doesn't give the same visibility or would require changes from tools.
8
9 For example, bugs assigned to the herd or with it in CC could be fixed by
10 anyone without having to ask for permission. How would that be handled easily
11 when using an extra metadata field?
12
13 Tim

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