OK; just to clarify my understanding, and perhaps for anyone else watching who saw things as muddled as I did:
1) A herd is a group of packages, no more, no less. A package must be a member of at least one herd (since the herd entry is mandatory in metadata.xml, and metadata.xml is mandatory). 2) A package can belong to more than one herd. 3) A herd does not have an email address - it's not a person or group of people so an email address is nonsensical. 4) In the first instance, a package is maintained by those listed by maintainer entries in the package's metadata.xml 5) In the second instance, a package is maintained by the people indicated by the package's herd entry or entries at /gentoo/misc/herds.xml 6) The herd entry may specify directly a list of maintainers with optional roles, or may refer to projects or other herds to locate maintainers. Another way of looking at it; herds are a mechanism for locating maintainers for packages. Seems simple enough when written out like that - flame me if I have it wrong :) -- Kevin F. Quinn
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