On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 11:57:21 +0200 Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Thursday 15 June 2006 02:33, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: > >> We could require that a herd mail alias be maintained for every > >> herd, with the same name as the herd, such that the herd alias > >> lists the maintainers of all packages in the herd. > > > > this would be useful regardless > > -mike > > Two notes here: > > - same name as herd requirement doesn't work for stuff like > cron/mysql/postgresql/apache... i.e., system accounts. Herd aliases could be named "herd-<name>", perhaps. > - needs to be done tree-wide (for packages that have metadata.xml at > least :P - ebuilds w/o metadata is topic for another thread). Until > it's completed, it's not useful - you still cannot rely upon the > assumption that if herd alias ain't in <maintainer>, they don't > maintain the thing. > > Otherwise yeah, +1 - and it's already done this way in many ebuilds, > i.e., the herd alias is in <maintainer> as well. -- Kevin F. Quinn
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