El mar, 09-09-2014 a las 21:45 +0200, Michał Górny escribió: [...] > I believe it would be benfiicial to just deprecate and eventually drop > <herd/> in favor of explicit <maintainer/> using the alias. I don't know > if someone has other use of herds.xml but it the contents are either > outdated or redundant. Therefore, I would suggest eventually getting > rid of that file as well. > > What do you think? >
I agree with this but we would need to cover the case of people being in a determined mail alias but don't really wanted to be considered a "maintainers" of the involved packages as they are in the alias to keep track on that issues. This problem has usually raised when a herd starts to become inactive as no one is really maintaining that packages. We can erroneously think that the herd is still active because there are people in the alias... but they are really not taking care of them at all. We discussed this in the past (I think it was a gentoo-dev ML thread related with media-optical herd being empty) and we agreed on only considering people listed in herds.xml as maintainers, not people in mail alias. Personally I would vote for simply have a <maintainer> tag pointing to the alias but we would still need to keep a list of real maintainers for that alias as usually not all people listed in the alias are willing to maintain the packages.
