On 09/27/2014 08:51 PM, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > On Sat, 27 Sep 2014 06:25:28 -0400 > Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 4:58 AM, Jeroen Roovers <j...@gentoo.org> >> wrote: >>> >>> Right now, CC'ing a single alias is inconvenient, but under your >>> proposal, you might need to CC a dozen or more people instead of >>> that alias. >>> >> >> That is incorrect. Herds would be replaced with projects, not with >> lists of individual (non-)maintainers. > > No, it's entirely correct. Killing <herd> but keeping <maintainer> with > its current denotation and connotation would mean listing separate > actual maintainers. > > Luckily we can instead choose to replace the contents of <herd> with > the alias listed in herds.xml. We would then be changing the meaning of > <maintainer> in addition to removing <herd>. > > It all depends on how you interpret the "using the alias" in the > original thread starter, I guess.
Don't forget that presence or lack thereof on an alias is no indication of a person's project membership. In KDE project for example we have people on our alias that are not part of the project, and people not that are.
