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, rb_littorrent and > packages co-maintained by others away from this herd.
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. Certainly a few herds are active in this way, but it seems like the majority are not. Where they are not we should get rid of them, unless a team steps up to actively maintain them (defining a project, electing leads, etc). Rich
