9.9.2005, 11:58:21, Torsten Veller wrote: > Well, i was told that adding the maintainer-needed herd is not a good > idea and it is best to remove metadata.xml if no valuable information > remains. > I couldn't find information on that. Can somebody explain? I don't understand this idea on removing metadata.xml. There are lots of packages with bug-wranglers@gentoo.org as herd in metadata. Removing metadata.xml is IMHO a really bad idea. Just will make me look at the ChangeLog, assign to maintainer-needed and CC someone who has touched the ebuild most often. > 2) > What is the next step after the last maintainer is removed from metadata.xml? > Well i announced these packages on -dev. Now i can wait some time (how > long?) and then? Put maintainer-needed in herd seems a logical solution to me. Hmmm. Maybe I missed something? -- Best regards, Jakub Moc mailto:jakub@gentoo.org GPG signature: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xCEBA3D9E Primary key fingerprint: D2D7 933C 9BA1 C95B 2C95 B30F 8717 D5FD CEBA 3D9E ... still no signature ;)