On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 05:13:48PM -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 15:54 +0200, Harald van Dijk wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 09:13:34AM -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > > > A great example of this are web-based applications. The web-apps > > > > project > > > > does not own all the web-based packages in the Portage tree. There are > > > > many > > > > such packages in the tree that are managed by developers that are not > > > > part > > > > of the project. The web-apps project gets to decide what happens to the > > > > packages grouped in the web-apps herd, but we neither have the right > > > > (nor > > > > the desire) to tell other developers that they can't add web-based > > > > packages > > > > to the tree; nor do other developers require our permission before > > > > adding > > > > packages to the tree. > > > > > > Again, you are confusing herds and projects. > > > > > > Here's another example of it done correctly. If you add a game to the > > > tree, the herd should be listed as games. Period. Even if you are > > > going to be the sole maintainer of the package, games should be the > > > herd. Why? Because it is a game, silly. > > > > Why do no games' metadata.xml specify games@ as the maintainer? I > > thought it was because <herd>games</herd> implies this already, but if > > it doesn't, then dozens of games can be considered unmaintained right > > now, and fair game for anyone to mess with without approval. Are you > > sure you like this interpretation of 'herd'? > > > > You're probably right that herd is supposed to mean what you say it > > does, but existing practise, even by yourself, is very different from > > it. > > Umm... no. > > See, if there's no maintainer listed, it defaults to the maintaining > project *for that herd*...
So <herd>games</herd> implies "managed by the games team" sometimes but not always? Meaning if the maintainer is "games team + X", then "games team" must be explicitly listed as a maintainer in metadata.xml ? If so, sorry, misunderstood you, and this is far less insane than what I thought you were saying. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
