On 11:57 Sun 05 Dec     , Sébastien Fabbro wrote:
> Kacper Kowalik wrote:
> 
> > As we can see
> >  * sci-physics \in sci
> >  * sci-chemistry \in sci (except Donnie)
> >  * sci-biology \in sci
> >  * sci-mathematics \in sci (except Rafael)
> 
> Splitting herds is not only be about email receiving which can be
> easily turned on by adding an email to the alias or turned off with
> procmail rules.
> I was thinking also about web page, profiles, and may be as Rafael
> showed it would create a sense of more accessible community. I can see
> how people might discard the possibility of devship by seeing a few
> hundreds packages and bugs in one giant herd. 

I agree here. Similary to Rafael I would also like to receive sci-math
bugspam but not sci-*.  I also don't see any good pros of joining the
herds except some abstract "simplification".  You can still subscribe to
all of the sci-? aliases if you are working on everything.

So what was the point of joining the herds in the first place?

> For those of us interested in all science packages, we could simply put
> sci as alias of all sci sub herds, or even create QA sci.

I like the first idea, but I also want to be able to use "sci" as a
herd, e.g. for scientific libraries that might be used across
disciplines.

Cheers,
Thomas



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Thomas Kahle
http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/

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