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From: "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Inconsistent and messy layout of team maintainership in Gentoo
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 04:49:17
Message-Id: robbat2-20150918T044659-402571065Z@orbis-terrarum.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Inconsistent and messy layout of team maintainership in Gentoo by "Andreas K. Huettel"
1 On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 11:43:02PM +0200, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
2 > a) Disallow the term "herd". Noone uses it correctly anyway.
3 >
4 > b) package is "in herd" -> package is "maintained by project"
5 >
6 > b') in metadata.xml <herd>x<herd> -> <project>y<project>
7 +1 on each.
8
9 > b'') simple and stupid mapping project y -> alias y-project@g.o
10 > ( legacy y@g.o should be forwarded if possible )
11 Legacy addresses are not always so simple as y@, the can be like
12 y-bugs@g.o as well.
13
14 >
15 > c) project membership implies project e-mail alias membership
16 > If you have a problem with this, read man procmail.
17 There are sometimes alias members that are NOT project members...
18
19 > d) per GLEP 39, only developers can be project members. introduce a category
20 > "contributors" who are also listed on the project page and are also added
21 > to the project alias.
22 GLEP39 said devs only. It's already not the case, with non-dev members
23 on the aliases.
24
25 --
26 Robin Hugh Johnson
27 Gentoo Linux: Developer, Infrastructure Lead
28 E-Mail : robbat2@g.o
29 GnuPG FP : 11ACBA4F 4778E3F6 E4EDF38E B27B944E 34884E85

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Inconsistent and messy layout of team maintainership in Gentoo "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o>