[gentoo-dev-announce] Herd -> project migration & cleanup required for GLEP67

[gentoo-dev-announce] Herd -> project migration & cleanup required for GLEP67

[Michał Górny]

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Hello, developers.

Yesterday the Council has pre-approved GLEP 67 (Package maintenance
structure) [1] and gave the green light to start official preparations
for it.

As outlined in the GLEP, the two preparatory steps for the migration
are:

| 1. all existing projects must be ensured to have unique e-mail
| addresses. Projects sharing the same e-mail address either need to be
| merged, or be given unique e-mail addresses.
|
| 2. All herds need to be converted into projects, subprojects or
| disbanded (replaced by person-type maintainers).

I'd really appreciate if the developers already looked into their
projects and the herds they maintain, and performed the necessary
actions on their own. I will specifically query the remaining teams
afterwards.

If more than one of your projects reuse the same e-mail address (or
use e-mail addresses of developers), please open a Infra bug requesting
new e-mail addresses. Feel free to use a single bug for multiple
independent projects, and I will try my best to handle those requests
quickly.

Depending on the structure of your projects, you may want to keep
the current e-mail address for one of them or create a new parent
project for all projects sharing the same e-mail address.

For herds, please do not perform any changes to herds.xml or
metadata.xml yet. We will update those files automatically when
the final wording of the GLEP and the migration are approved. However,
feel free to create new projects on the wiki.

We are keeping a herd->project mapping table [2] on the Wiki. Please
check whether the herds you maintain are correctly mapped to a project,
and fill the missing mappings in (creating projects as necessary).
If you'd prefer the herd to be disbanded, just put a hyphen ('-')
in the project column.

At the time of migration, we will replace all occurrences of <herd/>
with the respective project addresses. For herds which are to be
disbanded, all previous herd maintainers will be copied to package
maintainers in metadata.xml instead.

Thanks for all the work so far! If you have any questions, please don't
hesitate to ask.

[1]:https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GLEP:67
[2]:https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Metastructure/Herd_to_project_mapping

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny
<http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>

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