Re: [gentoo-dev] The (lack of) use of herds

2006-10-30 Thread Roy Marples
On Monday 30 October 2006 10:26, Elfyn McBratney wrote: A single person doesn't constitute a team [1]. More than one person does... [1] Unless you're SpanKY. You forget that vapier also works with SpanKY ;) -- Roy Marples [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gentoo/Linux Developer (baselayout, networking) --

Re: [gentoo-dev] The (lack of) use of herds

2006-10-29 Thread Richard Fish
On 10/28/06, Marius Mauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I'd go further and question the whole herd concept. It also gives users the impression that there is an entire team of people maintaining a package,when in fact it might be just one or two people. -Richard -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-dev] The (lack of) use of herds

2006-10-28 Thread Marius Mauch
On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 22:46:30 -0400 Alec Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I request that this tag be made optional in the metadata.xml DTD. While ideally it is beneficial to have every package in a herd, in practice this doesn't occur. 22:28 @omp $ herdstat -pq no-herd | wc -l 22:28 @omp

Re: [gentoo-dev] The (lack of) use of herds

2006-10-28 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 28 October 2006 22:43, Marius Mauch wrote: Well, I'd go further and question the whole herd concept. What benefits do we actually gain by having herds? For the most part it's just a way to associate a package with a mail alias, but for that I don't really see the need for this

Re: [gentoo-dev] The (lack of) use of herds

2006-10-28 Thread Marius Mauch
On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 23:00:04 -0400 Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 28 October 2006 22:43, Marius Mauch wrote: Well, I'd go further and question the whole herd concept. What benefits do we actually gain by having herds? For the most part it's just a way to associate a

Re: [gentoo-dev] The (lack of) use of herds

2006-10-28 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 29 October 2006 01:26, Marius Mauch wrote: So if now you're on a herd alias but not listed in herds.xml for a herd, what practical difference does it make if the herd exists or not? huh ? -mike pgpmO3uG0vGTB.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] The (lack of) use of herds

2006-10-28 Thread Alec Warner
Mike Frysinger wrote: On Sunday 29 October 2006 01:26, Marius Mauch wrote: So if now you're on a herd alias but not listed in herds.xml for a herd, what practical difference does it make if the herd exists or not? huh ? -mike I think one of his points is that you still get the bugmail...I