Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Deprecating and killing the concept of herds

[Michał Górny]

Dnia 2014-09-10, o godz. 07:53:31
Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> napisał(a):

> On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 7:33 AM, Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> wrote:
> >
> > Personally I would vote for simply have a <maintainer> tag pointing to
> > the alias but we would still need to keep a list of real maintainers for
> > that alias as usually not all people listed in the alias are willing to
> > maintain the packages.
> >
>
> I think the solution to this is that maintainers can be either:
> 1.  Devs - identified by their email address.  (simple enough)
> or
> 2.  Projects - identified by their email alias.
> or
> 3.  A proxy maintainer identified by email address (in which case
> either a dev or project must also be listed, potentially including the
> proxy maintainer project).

4. A mail alias that is not project :). For example, we have clang@ for
easily aggregating all clang-related build failures and other bugs but
it isn't a formal team.

It's hard if such a thing has proper member list. But in any case, is
there a reason for needing to have definitive member list?

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Best regards,
Michał Górny