On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 20:54:21 -0400 "Dan Meltzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | According to the devmanual [1] | "A herd is a collection of developers who maintain a collection of | related packages" | | are you sure you are using the correct term?
Ah, yes, we're back to the old "what is a herd?" thing again. There're at least three equally valid definitions you can trot out depending upon which suits your argument. There's the original metastructure description, which was suitable in the old days but no matches the realities of how things are developed (especially the dumping packages part, which used to be standard practice and is now considered extremely rude), there's the "herds are people" definition that matches how the word is most usually used (and which was argued for earlier by some of the people who are now arguing for the old metastructure definition) and there's the pragmatic definition in the devmanual. Really, anyone arguing purely on definition is missing the point... -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail : ciaran dot mccreesh at blueyonder.co.uk -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
