Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo) wrote: >It would be useful to know how many people think herds are not >maintainers - if only a few people think this then I suggest it would >be better to accept the common interpretation of herd as a group of >people who can maintain a package. > > > I've always considered herd == maintainer. When a package is related to one of the herd I'm part of, I prefer setting it in metadata.xml instead of adding myself as the maintainer of the package. A herd should be more responsive than a single individual (depending on the size of the herd, of course). Also, it would mean less things to do when the maintainer leaves from Gentoo dev community.
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