Re: Notify people about empty herds (Was: Re: [gentoo-dev] FTR: media-optical@g.o has no developers)

[Markos Chandras <hwoarang@gentoo.org>]

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And maybe it would be a wise move to merge/remove some herds because ,as I
see, the number of herds is equal ( or even higher ) to the number of
developers.

2010/6/3 Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org>

> El jue, 03-06-2010 a las 13:36 +0300, Samuli Suominen escribió:
> > For the record, media-optical herd is currently without any devs and
> > also the mail alias in d.g.o is empty so nobody is really reading the
> > bugmail.
> >
> > In case you want to join it...
> >
> > - Samuli
>
> Would be possible to modify script that generates
> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/metastructure/herds/herds.xml to list
> empty herds on a different section at the top of the webpage for
> detecting herds without people easier?
>
> Even better would be to also provide information about "devway"
> developers, indicating something like, for example:
> 41.  gnome
> - Description
> GNOME Desktop and related packages
> - Herd maintainers' email address
> gnome@gentoo.org
> - Maintainers
> ...
> pacho@gentoo.org (Pacho Ramos) (Devway)
>
> But I am not sure if it would be possible :-/
>
> Also, maybe we should consider change the assignment for bugs assigned
> to empty herds, assigning them to maintainers-needed and CCing affected
> herd, that way, once somebody revives the herd, he could simply revert
> the assign to the old way and, until then, people reviewing
> maintainers-needed bugs would also notice that bug reports.
>
> Thanks a lot
>

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