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On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 5:00 AM, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote: |
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> Shouldn't this be REQUIRES_TEAM instead? A "herd" used to be a |
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> collection of packages, whereas the devs maintaining them were called |
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> a team. Or don't we care about this distinction any more? |
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Certainly when I was recruited this distinction was made. In recent |
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years it seems to have gone away. I'm not going to nitpick on terms |
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because the present system mostly works. |
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The original definitions was that groups of packages are herds, and |
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groups of people are projects. The fact that nobody seems to actually |
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formalize their projects (create page, elect leads, etc) probably |
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contributes to conflating the two. Plus, it really isn't that much of |
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a value-add to clone the namespace/etc. Willikins thinks of people as |
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part of herds as well. |
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Rich |
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