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On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 15:54 +0100, Stuart Herbert wrote: |
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> > A herd is a group of like *packages* |
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> > A team is a bunch of people who share a common goal (sometimes to |
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> > maintain a herd of packages). |
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> > A herd is also a bunch of mindless beasts who follow each other. |
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> The metastructure document (which we voted in as our governing |
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> document last year) uses the term 'project' instead of team, and makes |
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> no mention of herds at all. |
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Except the metastructure document actually has zero bearing in this, |
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since it wasn't a proposal of how to maintain packages. It was a |
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proposal on how we would try to organize ourselves. A herd plays no |
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part in this organization, which is why it wasn't mentioned then, and |
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shouldn't be mentioned now. |
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> I think the way forward would be to have this clarification (of herds |
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> vs teams) added to the metastructure document, and then for us to sort |
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> out the metadata.xml files on the back of that. |
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> I guess any change to that document should be subject to a vote. |
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I sincerely hope that we do not change that document, which was quite |
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good at pertaining only to what was necessary, into trying to be some |
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form of document to pertain to everything. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Strategic Lead |
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x86 Architecture Team |
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Games - Developer |
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Gentoo Linux |
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