Re: [gentoo-dev] media-optical, net-zope, sgml, text-markup herds are empty

[Pacho Ramos]

El vie, 09-03-2012 a las 21:21 +0100, Pacho Ramos escribió:
> El vie, 09-03-2012 a las 21:15 +0100, Pacho Ramos escribió:
> > El vie, 09-03-2012 a las 22:02 +0200, Samuli Suominen escribió:
> > > On 03/09/2012 09:48 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote:
> > > > El vie, 09-03-2012 a las 16:57 +0100, Michał Górny escribió:
> > > >> On Fri, 09 Mar 2012 09:02:23 +0100
> > > >> Pacho Ramos<pacho@g.o>  wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >>> El dom, 04-03-2012 a las 13:56 +0100, Pacho Ramos escribió:
> > > >>>> El dom, 04-03-2012 a las 13:51 +0100, Pacho Ramos escribió:
> > > >>>>> El dom, 04-03-2012 a las 13:47 +0100, Pacho Ramos escribió:
> > > >>>>>> Even if they have some people in their mail aliases, looks like
> > > >>>>>> herds are empty. If nobody volunteers to join to them, I think
> > > >>>>>> we should drop that herds and move their packages to
> > > >>>>>> maintainer-needed in a week or so.
> > > >>>>>>
> > > >>>>>> What do you think?
> > > >>>>>>
> > > >>>>>
> > > >>>>> The same applies to "sgml" now that cryos is retiring :(
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> and text-markup, I think it's the last empty herd now
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Maybe we could do the same as did in the past for openoffice herd:
> > > >>> - Change metadatas and bugs to assign them to maintainer-needed (and
> > > >>> reflect reality)
> > > >>> - Keep herd in metadatas and CCed them to bug reports
> > > >>>
> > > >>> The other option would be to simply drop that herds, assign packages
> > > >>> to maintainer-needed and wait developers to grab whatever they want
> > > >>
> > > >> For net-zope, I'd prefer dropping it. We decided to get rid of Zope,
> > > >> removed almost all relevant packages, so there's no point in keeping
> > > >> the herd.
> > > >>
> > > >
> > > > OK but, what about the rest? ;)
> > >
> > > Please leave at least media-optical@ be as it is. Changing it doesn't
> > > make any sense.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Well, the idea would be to get their bugs assigned to maintainer-needed
> > and media-optical CCed if somebody wants to take that stuff someday, it
> > would reflect better reality as, currently, their bugs are being
> > assigned to an empty herd (yes, xarthisius (I think he was in alias but
> > not officially in herd last time I checked, anyway it's only one
> > example, nothing personal against him of course :)). What will occur
> > when he simply drops his mail from alias as he never wanted to be a
> > member of that herd? What would occur if he only wants to maintain some
> > packages but others are getting ignored?
> >
> > The idea to get them moved to "orphan" is to reflect reality and, that
> > way, try to get developers (or users willing to proxy maintain them)
> > involved on exact apps they really want to keep maintained.
>
> As talked just now with Samuli, he added him to media-optical (both, to
> alias and herds.xml) and then, this no longer applies to media-optical
> obviously ;)
>

Will then do the following:
- Add a <maintainer> tag to their metadatas to get bugs assigned to
maintainer-needed
- Keep herd to get it CCed (like was done some weeks ago with openoffice
herd)

This applies to "sgml" and "text-markup" since media-optical is active
again and looks like net-zope packages will go away soon