[gentoo-dev] Re: About herds and their non-existant use

2008-05-24 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Sat, 24 May 2008, Tiziano Müller wrote: Changing your name because of technical difficulties? This is really not the way to go. Systems have to be adjusted to meet our needs, not the other way round (in case it is possible of course). +1 But nevertheless, it would be nice to have a

[gentoo-dev] Re: About herds and their non-existant use

2008-05-24 Thread Tiziano Müller
Ulrich Mueller wrote: On Sat, 24 May 2008, Tiziano Müller wrote: Changing your name because of technical difficulties? This is really not the way to go. Systems have to be adjusted to meet our needs, not the other way round (in case it is possible of course). +1 But nevertheless, it

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About herds and their non-existant use

2008-05-23 Thread Marijn Schouten (hkBst)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tiziano � wrote: | Marius Mauch wrote: | - only have one location where members of a given team are listed, | currently it's possible and quite likely that herds.xml and the mail | alias files get out of sync | Well, we need one location where the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About herds and their non-existant use

2008-05-23 Thread Tiziano Müller
Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote: While we're changing things around, perhaps we can then also standardize the mail alias to [EMAIL PROTECTED] What Marius is saying though is that there are two files that handle people and their herds. One XML for saying who is in a herd and one for each herd

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About herds and their non-existant use

2008-05-23 Thread Santiago M. Mola
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Tiziano Müller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote: While we're changing things around, perhaps we can then also standardize the mail alias to [EMAIL PROTECTED] What Marius is saying though is that there are two files that handle people and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About herds and their non-existant use

2008-05-23 Thread Marius Mauch
On Thu, 22 May 2008 08:05:07 +0200 Tiziano Müller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While I think the herds concecpt is somewhat useless, I'd rather like to see something like this instead: maintainer teamfoobar/team /maintainer This makes it clear that it is a team instead of a person (where

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About herds and their non-existant use

2008-05-23 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 07:18:16AM +0200, Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tiziano ??? wrote: | Marius Mauch wrote: | - only have one location where members of a given team are listed, | currently it's possible and quite likely that herds.xml and

[gentoo-dev] Re: About herds and their non-existant use

2008-05-23 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
Robin H. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The sole reason that isn't possible is that some teams would have names that conflict with system accounts. While it's possible to override those in the Gentoo mail server setup, the system account versions DO receive a _LOT_ of spam because they are

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About herds and their non-existant use

2008-05-23 Thread Rémi Cardona
Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò a écrit : Robin H. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The sole reason that isn't possible is that some teams would have names that conflict with system accounts. While it's possible to override those in the Gentoo mail server setup, the system account versions DO

[gentoo-dev] Re: About herds and their non-existant use

2008-05-22 Thread Tiziano Müller
Marius Mauch wrote: Moving the discussion to -dev per leios request. On Wed, 21 May 2008 23:42:19 +0200 Marius Mauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As this topic jus came up in #-dev, and most people there seemed to agree with me I thought it might be worth to bring this topic up again. The

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About herds and their non-existant use

2008-05-22 Thread Luis Francisco Araujo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tiziano Müller wrote: | Marius Mauch wrote: | | Moving the discussion to -dev per leios request. | | On Wed, 21 May 2008 23:42:19 +0200 | Marius Mauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | As this topic jus came up in #-dev, and most people there seemed to |

[gentoo-dev] Re: About herds and their non-existant use

2008-05-22 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
Luis Francisco Araujo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Unless a team can maintain several herds, I find the term 'herd' confusing and better understood as 'team' instead. +1 on this. I always thought that if almost every dev misuses the term herd, it was because the term had to be changed, rather

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About herds and their non-existant use

2008-05-22 Thread Arun Raghavan
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Luis Francisco Araujo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Unless a team can maintain several herds, I find the term 'herd' confusing and better understood as 'team' instead. +1 on this. I always thought that if almost