On Sat, 27 Sep 2014 06:25:28 -0400
Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 4:58 AM, Jeroen Roovers <j...@gentoo.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > Right now, CC'ing a single alias is inconvenient, but under your
> > proposal, you might need to CC a dozen or more people instead of
> > that alias.
> >
>
> That is incorrect. Herds would be replaced with projects, not with
> lists of individual (non-)maintainers.
No, it's entirely correct. Killing <herd> but keeping <maintainer> with
its current denotation and connotation would mean listing separate
actual maintainers.
Luckily we can instead choose to replace the contents of <herd> with
the alias listed in herds.xml. We would then be changing the meaning of
<maintainer> in addition to removing <herd>.
It all depends on how you interpret the "using the alias" in the
original thread starter, I guess.
> I don't think that anybody thinks that having groups of devs isn't
> useful. The problem is that we have two different mechanisms for
> having groups of people, and one of them seems to make more sense than
> the other.
Right. And nobody was contesting that.
jer
