On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Luis Francisco Araujo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Unless a team can maintain several herds, I find the term 'herd' >> confusing and better understood as 'team' instead. > > +1 on this. I always thought that if almost every dev misuses the term > herd, it was because the term had to be changed, rather than the devs > corrected...
Till very recently, I too misunderstood the meaning of the term. I think one problem is that the term really hasn't been defined anywhere (at least I couldn't find a proper definition on [1]). I really do like the herds terminology because it is unique and has become a Gentoo-ism of sorts. It also is reminiscent of Larry, in some sense (herds -> grazing -> moo -> cow -> larry). :) [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/metastructure/herds/ Just my ${currency} 0.02, -- Arun Raghavan (http://nemesis.accosted.net) v2sw5Chw4+5ln4pr6$OFck2ma4+9u8w3+1!m?l7+9GSCKi056 e6+9i4b8/9HTAen4+5g4/8APa2Xs8r1/2p5-8 hackerkey.com -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
