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On Fri, 9 Sep 2005 11:58:21 +0200 Torsten Veller <tove@g.o> |
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wrote: |
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| Well, i was told that adding the maintainer-needed herd is not a good |
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| idea and it is best to remove metadata.xml if no valuable information |
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| remains. |
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| I couldn't find information on that. Can somebody explain? |
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maintainer-needed isn't a herd, it's an alias. On the same subject, |
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no-herd isn't legal in metadata.xml either. Both of these are |
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metastructure policy matters, so changing them requires a GLEP. |
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A GLEP probably wouldn't be a bad idea, either... The way the tree is |
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maintained has changed considerably over the past few years. In |
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particular, herds are no longer a fallback for when the maintainer |
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(single person) is not available. |
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-- |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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