On 9/17/15 4:35 AM, Justin (jlec) wrote:
On 16/09/15 23:43, Matthew Thode wrote:
On 09/16/2015 04:25 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
So, what are your thoughts for unmessing this?
Herds are groups of developers that can then be mapped to a package.
Herds are a group of packages, which are maintained my one or more developers or
a project team consisting of one or more developers.
Let's begin by eliminating herds. We can do that by absorbing herds
into projects where that makes sense (eg base-system), or expanding the
herd into the respective maintainers where a clear association between
herd and project does not make sense. An ebuild can then have a
<project> tag in which case it is maintained by all members of a project
or a maintainer list, or a combination of both. It can also have an
observer tag for devs that want to track that pkg's maintenance while
not being a maintainer.
Aliases can be associated with projects in the same way that ebuilds
are. An alias can either belong to a project, in which case it expands
to all the project members plus other added emails, or just a free
standing alias with just members.
Eg1. I'm not on base system, so an pkg with
<project>
<name>base-system</name>
<email>base-sys...@gentoo.org</email>
</project>
<maintainer>
<name>Anthony G. Basile</name>
<email>bluen...@gentoo.org</email>
</maintainer>
<observer>
<name>Devan Franchini</name>
<email>twitch153@gentoo</email>
<observer>
would be maintained by all of base system with alias
base-sys...@gentoo.org and me. twitch153 is listed as just an observer
of the pkg and would receive emails but not technically be allowed to
maintain the package. The email alias for this pkg is automatically
generated from the metadata.xml.
Eg2. A "free standing" ebuild could have
<maintainer>
<name>Anthony G. Basile</name>
<email>bluen...@gentoo.org</email>
<proxy/>
</maintainer>
<maintainer>
<email>b...@bergstroem.nu</email>
<name>Johan Bergström</name>
</maintainer>
Again the alias for this pkg is automatically generated from the
metadata.xml
Thoughs?
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