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On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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> Let's keep it short: I think herds don't serve any special purpose |
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> nowadays. Their existence is mostly resulting in lack of consistency |
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> and inconveniences. |
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The original design was that packages belong to herds, and developers |
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belong to projects. Projects might maintain a herd. |
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The problem is that this isn't followed with 100% rigor, and the extra |
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level of indirection probably doesn't make bug things easier. |
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I'm not sure what we lose by getting rid of herds vs just listing |
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projects as maintainers. Maybe herds are useful as a form of tag, but |
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if we really wanted that it would make more sense to just have tags of |
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some kind. |
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