Re: [gentoo-dev] Please use land-misc herd where appropriate! No no-herd madness!!!

[foser]

On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 18:25 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Sat, 09 Oct 2004 16:54:29 +0200 foser <foser@g.o> wrote:
> | On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 14:56 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> | > On Sat, 09 Oct 2004 15:33:19 +0200 foser <foser@g.o> wrote:
> | > | Every package is in some form a subset of a category of packages
> | >
> | > Not really, hence why solar's suggestion (which is just a
> | > formalisation of what we're doing anyway) is such a good idea.
> |
> | Well, this gets to be a yes/no thread. But I personally do not believe
> | there are packages that cannot be categorized in meaningful way on
> | some common denominator with other packages (read : herd). Granted, a
> | herd may not exist yet, but thats something else.
>
> Well, that's the thing... You *could* go and create a bunch of arbitrary
> herds to cover things. But take, for example, er... dev-util/txt2regex.
> I think you'd have a hard time finding a herd for that, since there's no
> particular identifiable group of people that use both this and a half
> dozen or so other misc apps. Plus, it's such a trivial easy-to-maintain
> package that it's not worth the effort of finding additional maintainers
> and co-ordinating them. Some things really don't need a team behind
> them...

I don't say these things need a 'team behind them' when they are being
maintained by some individual, i do say that they need something to fall
back upon when the maintainer disappears. Already certain 'no-herd'-ed
ebuilds with a single maintainer are unmaintained because the maintainer
went inactive. The essence is to always have some group responsible for
every ebuild in the tree.

This is not about making a difference when the maintainer is still
around, but a way to guarantee continuity. In this case I can imagine a
nice herd dubbed shell-tools or something where this & other
unidentifiable commandline utils can be grouped together.

- foser