[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-science] Scientific Gentoo reorg: on herd naming

[George Shapovalov <george@gentoo.org>]

The herd naming issue has surfaced in more detail again - there were already 
two comments that it is beneficial to keep -sci in herd names. I originally 
suggested that we drop it (and in general go with a "catchier" names), but 
now it looks like I am slowly turning towards being more conservative 
myself :). That is to keep sci- and possibly resembel category names as much 
as possible. The reasoning: making life easier on bug wranglers and on 
everybody trying to search for the sci-related maintaince info or just to see 
the relationship between different packages.. Any thoughts?

(A comment towards users, as they seemed to react to this issue more then devs 
last time. This is a completely internal stuff that you are not supposed to 
see or care about, unless you are willing to become a developer and maintain 
packages of course ;). This does not concern how the categories are named 
(nothing happens there actually, well, except for a few possible splits)).

Anyway, I'd say it is best for the actual maintainers to decide for every 
herd. However if we have upwards of two herds retaining sci or following 
category naming I think it makes sense for all to keep it all consistent and 
follow..

George
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