On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 14:47 -0400, Ned Ludd wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 09:13 -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> 
> > Just because the maintaining *project* doesn't
> > want it doesn't mean it doesn't belong to that herd.
> 
> This is incorrect and you should not encourage people to add pkgs to 
> a herd unless they get permission from that herd. If a herd does not 
> want it you shall not shit in their home (it's rude).

A herd doesn't *want* anything.  It is a group of packages.  Perhaps you
mean a maintaining project?

> When a package lists a herd then the responsibility is shared 
> among the maintainer and the herd.

Only if someone didn't list themselves as the maintainer, which would be
wrong.  Just because the games team doesn't maintain something doesn't
mean it isn't a game anymore.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead
x86 Architecture Team
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux

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