Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A heretical thought? Blessing project sunrise as an almost-fork.

[Ned Ludd]

On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 17:25 -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 14:47 -0400, Ned Ludd wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 09:13 -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> >
> > > Just because the maintaining *project* doesn't
> > > want it doesn't mean it doesn't belong to that herd.
> >
> > This is incorrect and you should not encourage people to add pkgs to
> > a herd unless they get permission from that herd. If a herd does not
> > want it you shall not shit in their home (it's rude).
>
> A herd doesn't *want* anything.  It is a group of packages.  Perhaps you
> mean a maintaining project?

Nope not at all see below.

>
> > When a package lists a herd then the responsibility is shared
> > among the maintainer and the herd.
>


> Only if someone didn't list themselves as the maintainer, which would be
> wrong.  Just because the games team doesn't maintain something doesn't
> mean it isn't a game anymore.

I think you are confusing a category/ vs a herd.
But in the case of games@ only we can take your note and keep it in 
mind when adding new packages to the tree to go ahead and slap a 
games@ on it. But sorry not the rest of the tree.


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Ned Ludd <solar@g.o>
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