On Fri, 09 Sep 2005 13:49:55 -0400 Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 17:10 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > maintained has changed considerably over the past few years. In | > particular, herds are no longer a fallback for when the maintainer | > (single person) is not available. | | Say what? What the hell is the point of a herd, then? And when did | this nonsense happen?
This is what the original metastructure policy said, which means it happened something like three years ago. The original point of herds was as a fallback rather than as a primary maintainer. This obviously isn't how things are done currently... A GLEP revising the role of herds and adding in maintainer-needed would be useful. I'm not going to be around over the weekend, but if no-one else has written something up by whenever I get back I'll throw a draft together... -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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