On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 22:34 +0200, Jakub Moc wrote: > > It's not irrelevant; you're just not reading it properly. You might > > notice that metadata.xml contains tags other than <herd>, like, say, > > <maintainer>. In the example that sparked this, <herd> is games and > > <maintainer> the individual dev who maintains it. Simple enough, no? > > Please, go through the tree and see at least so many metadata.xml files > as I have seen, before claiming something that simply doesn't reflect > current practice. There are many ebuilds with no <maintainer> tag and > <herd> only. Are you claiming that they are unmaintained? Well, that
Nobody said that they were unmaintained. Again, why do people *insist* on trying bullshit arguments like this? "Are you claiming.." No, he's not claiming that, or he would have *said* that. > obviously doesn't match the reality. So, if they actually _are_ > maintained by the relevant herd, then you shouldn't dump stuff on that > herd without discussing it w/ them first. I'm pretty sure mcummings will > gladly explain to you what will happen if you do, as well as a bunch of > other devs... :P A herd is a group of packages, not a listing of people. When you get information from the herds.xml, you are getting the listing of the people that *maintain* that herd. You are not getting a listing of the people *in* the herd. Please go back and read the herds project page[1] and try to understand this. It really is printed quite simply. > To make it pretty clear and explicit - bugs gets assigned to > <maintainer> (if there's any in metadata.xml), and get CCed to <herd> > (if there's any in metadata.xml). If there's no <maintainer>, whoever is > in <herd> will get that bug assigned and can happily smack you butt once > they've find out you've dumped the package on them without their > knowledge... That's how the large part of current ~600 dev-perl/* > ebuilds has made it into the tree and that mistake doesn't need to be > repeated. You are correct. This is *exactly* how it works. Also, you'll notice that nothing either I or Stephen has said contradicts this, if you actually went back and contemplated what we both said. [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/metastructure/herds/ -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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