On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 11:09:53AM -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 08:28 +0200, George Shapovalov wrote: > > Wanna guess how many of those happen to be stale? > > I would suspect fewer than you think. As an example, I have a few > packages which belong to no herd, but have me listed as maintainer. > Many of the no-herd packages are the same. Not being grouped with other > packages doesn't mean it is unmaintained.
I agree. All my rox stuff (rox-base/* and rox-extra/*) kind of fits into many different herds. Or no herd. Or maybe its own new herd. > So this bears the question, what is the proper solution? > > Make <herd> optional? > Force the maintainer's email into <herd> for packages without a herd? Or force each maintainer of herdless packages to create their own special herd. Which I may end up doing with my rox packages anyway. -- Jim Ramsay Gentoo/Linux Developer (rox)
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