Re: [gentoo-dev] i18n herd

[Zarick Lau <zenithlau@i-cable.com>]

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Hi,

Sorry to interrupt !!
But I'm really have no idea of the meaning of 'herd', can anyone tell me
anything about 'herd'??


Regards,
Zarick Lau
On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 01:32, Tal Peer wrote:

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> Hi,
> I'm currently co-maintaining (with coronalvr) some packages which are used 
> by middle-eastern users (namely - fribidi, hspell, bidiv, and i'm probably 
> forgetting something here..).
> 
> Now, those packages are currently herdless because i'm not sure what 
> strategy should be taken when assigning them to herds.
> There are two options regarding that:
> 
> a) Creating a general i18n herd for all i18n-related packages (the cjk 
> herd could probably be merged into that).
> b) Creating specialized herds for each region/language group - ie. 
> middle-east, cjk, anything else?
> 
> I think option B is better because, for example, i've absolutely no 
> knowledge of CJK, so if someone will ask me something about one of the cjk 
> packages (because he'll see me as a maintainer for the i18n herd) i'll 
> have to redirect him to someone else in the herd == inefficency.
> 
> Your comments are more than welcome.
> 
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