On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 4:58 AM, Jeroen Roovers <j...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > Right now, CC'ing a single alias is inconvenient, but under your > proposal, you might need to CC a dozen or more people instead of that > alias. >
That is incorrect. Herds would be replaced with projects, not with lists of individual (non-)maintainers. I don't think that anybody thinks that having groups of devs isn't useful. The problem is that we have two different mechanisms for having groups of people, and one of them seems to make more sense than the other. Answer this: 5 developers want to maintain a group of packages together. Should they form a herd, or a project? Under what circumstances should they choose one vs the other? I don't think the distinction is particularly useful, and projects at least have a straightforward governance model. -- Rich
