Re: [gentoo-project] About herds and their non-existant use

[Ferris McCormick]

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On Thu, 22 May 2008 00:38:10 +0200

Marius Mauch <genone@g.o> wrote:



> On Wed, 21 May 2008 23:42:19 +0200
> Marius Mauch <genone@g.o> wrote:
>
> > So, what do you think? Is there some benefit in keeping this concept,
> > or can we live without it and make life simpler for everyone?
>
> Hmm, apparently I confused people even more, so let me summarize my
> proposal:
> Basically I want to replace all <herd>foo</herd> tags in metadata.xml
> with <maintainer><email>foo-alias@g.o</email></maintainer>,
> just like ordinary maintainers are listed.
> And instead of using a manually maintained herds.xml get list of team
> members either directly from the mail alias definitions or
> indirectly from some auto-generated (and eventually filtered)
> plaintext file.
>
> Marius
>


I rather like it.  At least, that's the information I want from

metadata.xml.  I suppose you could keep the <herd>blah</herd> as well

if there is some reason to keep track of where the package fits in on

a finer scale than wherever it is in the tree, but for me a mail alias

for the maintainers is more useful. 

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Regards,

Ferris

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Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor@g.o>

Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc, Devrel, Userrel, Trustees)

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