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Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 19:08:26 +0100
From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] metadata revised - removal of packages
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On Fri, 09 Sep 2005 13:49:55 -0400 Chris Gianelloni
<wolf31o2@gentoo.org> wrote:
| On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 17:10 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
| > maintained has changed considerably over the past few years. In
| > particular, herds are no longer a fallback for when the maintainer
| > (single person) is not available.
|=20
| Say what?  What the hell is the point of a herd, then?  And when did
| this nonsense happen?

This is what the original metastructure policy said, which means it
happened something like three years ago. The original point of herds
was as a fallback rather than as a primary maintainer. This obviously
isn't how things are done currently... A GLEP revising the role of
herds and adding in maintainer-needed would be useful. I'm not going to
be around over the weekend, but if no-one else has written something up
by whenever I get back I'll throw a draft together...

--=20
Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron)
Mail            : ciaranm at gentoo.org
Web             : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm


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