Bug 569354 – Please provide mapping for herd app-backup@g.o (GLEP67)

• Product: Gentoo Infrastructure
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Michał Górny 2015-12-23 15:02:22 UTC]

The herds have been deprecated by the Council and are being replaced
by projects. For this reason, please decide on the fate of the herd
stated in the summary and update [1] or state the request here.

The common choices are:

1. Map the herd to an existing project (in this case all packages
in the herd will be maintained by the project) -- let us know which
project to use.

2. Create a new project for the herd -- create the wiki page, let us
know the new mail alias name to be created, create the wiki page
and let us know about it.

3. Decide to disband the herd -- just let us know (but keep it for now
in herds.xml!), we'll replace it with individual maintainers when herds
are removed.

[1]:https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Metastructure/Herd_to_project_mapping

[Comment 1 Michael Palimaka (kensington) 2016-01-14 05:24:11 UTC]

As per the recent Council decision[1], the final deadline for herd -> project migration is 24th January 2016. If no action is taken for this herd by that time, any packages that do not have another maintainer will be reassigned to maintainer-needed.

Common options include: mapping the herd to a new project, mapping it to an existing project, reassigning the packages to the herd maintainers, and reassigning to maintainer-needed.

Please let me know ASAP about your intentions for this herd and I'll be happy to take care of it. 

1: https://projects.gentoo.org/council/meeting-logs/20160110-summary.txt

[Comment 2 Thomas Beierlein 2016-01-16 11:02:14 UTC]

(In reply to Michael Palimaka (kensington) from comment #1)
> As per the recent Council decision[1], the final deadline for herd ->
> project migration is 24th January 2016. If no action is taken for this herd
> by that time, any packages that do not have another maintainer will be
> reassigned to maintainer-needed.
> 
> Common options include: mapping the herd to a new project, mapping it to an
> existing project, reassigning the packages to the herd maintainers, and
> reassigning to maintainer-needed.
> 
> Please let me know ASAP about your intentions for this herd and I'll be
> happy to take care of it. 
> 
 Just a quick check of app-backup shows that 12 of 58 are on herd
 app-backup. Of this 6 have no maintainers at all.
    
    app-backup/backuppc
    app-backup/boxbackup
    app-backup/cdbackup
    app-backup/dirvish
    app-backup/simplebackup
    app-backup/snapback2
    
  Atm there is an email account [e-mail] but only with
  robbat2 and myself on the alias.
    
  Do we wish do get these packages moved to maintainer-needed or do some
  more are are interest in taking part of a project 'backup'? Then we
  should add a project to the wiki.
    
  Thomas

> 1: https://projects.gentoo.org/council/meeting-logs/20160110-summary.txt

[Comment 3 Michał Górny 2016-01-16 11:06:06 UTC]

FYI, if you decide to disband the herd: I'm going to send list of herds-to-be-disbanded soon to the mls, so if someone external wants to revive them, we can rediscuss it.

[Comment 4 Thomas Beierlein 2016-01-17 08:42:44 UTC]

(In reply to Michał Górny from comment #3)
> FYI, if you decide to disband the herd: I'm going to send list of
> herds-to-be-disbanded soon to the mls, so if someone external wants to
> revive them, we can rediscuss it.

Got feedback from robbat2 - would like to concentrate on maintained packages and suggests disbanding the herd. In light of this I would also support disbanding. Please do it.

[Comment 5 Michael Palimaka (kensington) 2016-01-17 08:46:09 UTC]

Thanks a lot for following up. I've updated the mapping appropriately.