Dnia 2014-09-09, o godz. 16:46:29 "Anthony G. Basile" <bluen...@gentoo.org> napisał(a):
> On 09/09/14 15:56, Rich Freeman wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> Let's keep it short: I think herds don't serve any special purpose > >> nowadays. Their existence is mostly resulting in lack of consistency > >> and inconveniences. > >> > > The original design was that packages belong to herds, and developers > > belong to projects. Projects might maintain a herd. > > > > The problem is that this isn't followed with 100% rigor, and the extra > > level of indirection probably doesn't make bug things easier. > > > > I'm not sure what we lose by getting rid of herds vs just listing > > projects as maintainers. Maybe herds are useful as a form of tag, but > > if we really wanted that it would make more sense to just have tags of > > some kind. > > I can live with collapsing herds into projects as long as we keep some > system where groups of packages come under the care of groups of > developers. Eg. coreutils is maintained by base-system, or drupal is > maintained by web-app, etc. But we do loose something. I like being on > the bugzilla cc list of lots of herd where I'm not really a member of > the project taking care of that herd. I'm on both base-system@ and > web-app@ aliases, but I'm not a member of base-system while I am a > member of web-app. I don't understand your concern. I'm only saying we should stop relying on that stupid out-of-repository herds.xml file and put the e-mail address directly in metadata.xml. Bugzilla and bug assignment would work pretty much the same -- except that you wouldn't have to scan one more file to get the e-mail you're looking for. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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