Seemant Kulleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Consider this both a rant and a GLEP pre-proposal. When we created the > idea of herds back in the day, there was a clear distinction between a > herd and a team (and a project). Over time, those definitions have > become blurry. I would like emphasise: > > A herd is a group of like *packages* > A team is a bunch of people who share a common goal (sometimes to > maintain a herd of packages). > A herd is also a bunch of mindless beasts who follow each other. > > > To that end, it's been brought up that perhaps the metadata.xml files > are partly to blame, in that they imply that the package is maintained > by a herd. There is not maintainer-team listed, just a herd. > > So, I would like to propose that we make this distinction clearer in the > metadata.xml files. I'm interested in thoughts that people have on > this, but please do cc: me in your response to be assured that I read > it.
Is there a reason for this besides the definitions not falling into
place as they should? I'm not seeing a benefit from this to be honest.
People refer to teams as herds a lot of the time. It has become a
statement over time that people understand. I'm not sure why we want to
try and change that to something else, even if that was what it was
supposed to mean to begin with.
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