Re: [gentoo-dev] The (lack of) use of herds

2006-10-30 Thread Roy Marples
On Monday 30 October 2006 10:26, Elfyn McBratney wrote: > A single person doesn't constitute a team [1]. More than one person > does... > > [1] Unless you're SpanKY. You forget that vapier also works with SpanKY ;) -- Roy Marples <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/Linux Developer (baselayout, networkin

Re: [gentoo-dev] The (lack of) use of herds

2006-10-30 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On 29/10/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 10/28/06, Marius Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I'd go further and question the whole herd concept. It also gives users the impression that there is an entire "team" of people maintaining a package,when in fact it might be just on

Re: [gentoo-dev] The (lack of) use of herds

2006-10-29 Thread Richard Fish
On 10/28/06, Marius Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well, I'd go further and question the whole herd concept. It also gives users the impression that there is an entire "team" of people maintaining a package,when in fact it might be just one or two people. -Richard -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org ma

Re: [gentoo-dev] The (lack of) use of herds

2006-10-28 Thread Alec Warner
Mike Frysinger wrote: On Sunday 29 October 2006 01:26, Marius Mauch wrote: So if now you're on a herd alias but not listed in herds.xml for a herd, what practical difference does it make if the herd exists or not? huh ? -mike I think one of his points is that you still get the bugmail...I gu

Re: [gentoo-dev] The (lack of) use of herds

2006-10-28 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 29 October 2006 01:26, Marius Mauch wrote: > So if now you're on a herd alias but not listed in herds.xml for a herd, > what practical difference does it make if the herd exists or not? huh ? -mike pgpmO3uG0vGTB.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] The (lack of) use of herds

2006-10-28 Thread Marius Mauch
On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 23:00:04 -0400 Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 28 October 2006 22:43, Marius Mauch wrote: > > Well, I'd go further and question the whole herd concept. What > > benefits do we actually gain by having "herds"? For the most part > > it's just a way to asso

Re: [gentoo-dev] The (lack of) use of herds

2006-10-28 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 28 October 2006 22:43, Marius Mauch wrote: > Well, I'd go further and question the whole herd concept. What benefits > do we actually gain by having "herds"? For the most part it's just a > way to associate a package with a mail alias, but for that I don't > really see the need for this

Re: [gentoo-dev] The (lack of) use of herds

2006-10-28 Thread Marius Mauch
On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 22:46:30 -0400 Alec Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I request that this tag be made optional in the metadata.xml DTD. > > While ideally it is beneficial to have every package in a herd, in > practice this doesn't occur. > > 22:28 <@omp> $ herdstat -pq no-herd | wc -l > 2