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From: Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] media-optical and net-zope herds are empty
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2012 13:32:03
Message-Id: 1330867876.10135.59.camel@belkin4
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] media-optical and net-zope herds are empty by Ulrich Mueller
1 El dom, 04-03-2012 a las 14:06 +0100, Ulrich Mueller escribió:
2 > >>>>> On Sun, 04 Mar 2012, Pacho Ramos wrote:
3 >
4 > > Even if they have some people in their mail aliases, looks like
5 > > herds are empty.
6 >
7 > Sorry for nitpicking, but a "herd" is a collection of packages. So the
8 > herds are not empty, but they have no maintainers.
9
10 Well, I knew what a "herd" means exactly per devmanual ;), but, in real
11 world, that "collection of packages" is really orphan (are like
12 maintainer-needed packages but, what is worse, out of radar as they are
13 not listed as orphan at all)
14
15 (Personally I completely disagree with that sense of "herd" but, as
16 looks the meaning is there since the beginning...)
17
18 >
19 > > If nobody volunteers to join to them, I think we should drop that
20 > > herds and move their packages to maintainer-needed in a week or so.
21 >
22 > > What do you think?
23 >
24 > How many packages are in these two herds? If it's only a few, then
25 > this certainly makes sense.
26 >
27 > Ulrich
28 >
29 >
30
31 Only two for net-zope, but many more for, for example, sgml and
32 media-optical.

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