Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About net-p2p herd status

2013-04-01 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: The herd currently maintains 58[1] packages and a number of them are being co-maintained by other people. I don't think the herd is active and my opinion is to move high-profile packages, such as deluge, qbittorrent,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About net-p2p herd status

2013-04-01 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Mon, 1 Apr 2013 06:33:54 -0400 Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: I think that herds really only make sense if there is some kind of coordinated team effort behind them. Otherwise they're little more than another form of category and a black hole for bugs to go into. Let's see, some

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About net-p2p herd status

2013-04-01 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 7:41 AM, Tom Wijsman tom...@gentoo.org wrote: 1. Get more people to join these herds (devs, future recruits, ...) and set up project, leads and proper organization. This is the least confusing approach; since the same work is done but just by more people, which

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About net-p2p herd status

2013-04-01 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Mon, 1 Apr 2013 09:57:05 -0400 Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: 1. Get more people to join these herds (devs, future recruits, ...) and set up project, leads and proper organization. *snip* Sure, non-controversial IF there is interest. Yeah, I know of an user that has interest;

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About net-p2p herd status

2013-04-01 Thread Markos Chandras
2. Combine multiple herds in one bigger network herd. If we can't just magically get more developers to join these herds, we could put all the developers from these herds in one bigger herd to force them to organize and communicate. Get one bigger group to pay attention to the

[gentoo-dev] Re: About net-p2p herd status

2013-03-31 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 31/03/13 17:14, Pacho Ramos wrote: Hello Looks like this herd has some unattended bug for a long time (some for some years), and looks not quite active. Is it still active? Should it be dropped in favor of dedicated maintainers for its packages? Thanks I've just added myself back to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About net-p2p herd status

2013-03-31 Thread Markos Chandras
On 31 March 2013 15:32, Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: On 31/03/13 17:14, Pacho Ramos wrote: Hello Looks like this herd has some unattended bug for a long time (some for some years), and looks not quite active. Is it still active? Should it be dropped in favor of dedicated