On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 6:51 AM, Jeroen Roovers <j...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Sat, 27 Sep 2014 06:25:28 -0400 > Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> 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. > > No, it's entirely correct. Killing <herd> but keeping <maintainer> with > its current denotation and connotation would mean listing separate > actual maintainers. >
Is there some policy that says that a project cannot be a maintainer? How do we currently handle packages that are maintained by a project which doesn't have a corresponding herd? Why not just stick the project alias in the maintainer field? I can't find any "denotation" that states that this isn't acceptable, but if there is one I'm all ears. -- Rich
