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On Thursday 27 April 2006 09:22, Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo) wrote: |
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> On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 20:29:32 -0400 |
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> Seemant Kulleen <seemant@g.o> wrote: |
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> > To that end, it's been brought up that perhaps the metadata.xml files |
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> > are partly to blame, in that they imply that the package is maintained |
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> > by a herd. There is not maintainer-team listed, just a herd. |
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> > So, I would like to propose that we make this distinction clearer in |
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> > the metadata.xml files. I'm interested in thoughts that people have |
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> > on this, but please do cc: me in your response to be assured that I |
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> > read it. |
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> I must admit I've assumed that the herd entry in metadata.xml is a |
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> reasonable fall-back if the maintainer entry is missing or the listed |
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> maintainer is away/not responding. This is implied by |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/metastructure/herds/index.xml which |
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> requires <herd> but not <maintainer> - also the description of |
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> <maintainer> says "Besides being a member of a herd, a package can also |
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> be maintained directly" which implies the herd is the default maintainer |
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> if maintainer is not present. |
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The package is a member of the herd, not the maintainer. It means that the |
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herd maintainers are the default maintainers of a package. |
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> The herds project description says, "The herds project aims to ensure |
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> that the growing number of ebuilds do not overwelm (sic) the gentoo |
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> project. To this end the herds project aims for the development of |
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> infrastructure that will help manage the collection of ebuilds". This |
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> clearly indicates herds are supposed to have a maintainer role. |
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You read it wrong (I wrote that text, so I should know). The idea is to have a |
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group of people that manages (a group|groups) of packages. A group of |
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packages is a herd. A group of people is a project or a team (an informal |
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project). |
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> A quick scan of the tree shows that some 6k+ packages have no |
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> maintainer entry. |
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> It would be useful to know how many people think herds are not |
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> maintainers - if only a few people think this then I suggest it would |
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> be better to accept the common interpretation of herd as a group of |
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> people who can maintain a package. |
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The thing is, in most cases it doesn't really matter. But a herd is a group of |
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packages. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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