On Wed, 21 May 2008 23:42:19 +0200 Marius Mauch wrote: > So, what do you think? Is there some benefit in keeping this concept, > or can we live without it and make life simpler for everyone? Hmm, apparently I confused people even more, so let me summarize my proposal: Basically I want to replace all foo tags in metadata.xml with foo-alias@gentoo.org, just like ordinary maintainers are listed. And instead of using a manually maintained herds.xml get list of team members either directly from the mail alias definitions or indirectly from some auto-generated (and eventually filtered) plaintext file. Marius -- Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better.