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On Tuesday 10 January 2006 15:20, Lance Albertson wrote: |
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> Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> > Lance Albertson wrote: |
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> > | I understand the block was lifted for projects, but that doesn't |
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> > | mean herds should all should fit underneath proj/. |
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> > I agree. What I meant is that herds should be grouping together to |
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> > form new projects if they don't fit in an existing one; not that they |
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> > should create one project per herd. |
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> But herd != project. They are two distinct things. There are a couple |
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> of cases where they both are the same, but others where it isn't. For |
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> example, what project would netmon fit under? They aren't actively |
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> trying to create a specific idea inside of gentoo. To me that's one |
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> thing that defines a project from a herd. A herd mainly deals with |
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> organizing a group of ebuilds. I don't see how you can label every herd |
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> into a project. |
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Actually, although most people apparently forgot or ignored it, herds are |
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defined as just groups of ebuilds. Not groups of people (although it came |
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to that). The idea about the herds.xml file was to connect it to bugzilla |
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so that bugwranglers had an easier job. |
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Projects are groups of people with a certain goal. Such a goal might be to |
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maintain a herd of ebuilds. In that case they might have the same name. |
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Other projects maintain multiple herds, or no herds at all (like the GDP, |
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or infra). It is my opinion that every herd should be maintained by a |
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project. (Possibly assisted by another project). |
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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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