Bug 569424 – Please provide mapping for herd net-ftp@g.o (GLEP67)

• Product: Gentoo Infrastructure
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Michał Górny 2015-12-23 15:08:18 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 Bernard Cafarelli 2016-01-07 09:05:15 UTC]

If my grep skills do not fail me:
/usr/portage/net-ftp/cmdftp/metadata.xml:<herd>net-ftp</herd>
/usr/portage/net-ftp/filezilla/metadata.xml:  <herd>net-ftp</herd>
/usr/portage/net-ftp/proftpd/metadata.xml:	<herd>net-ftp</herd>
/usr/portage/net-ftp/pure-ftpd/metadata.xml:<herd>net-ftp</herd>
/usr/portage/net-ftp/tlswrap/metadata.xml:	<herd>net-ftp</herd>
/usr/portage/net-ftp/vsftpd/metadata.xml:	<herd>net-ftp</herd>

I think it is not worth having a project to handle these (and most of these packages are better with a specific maintainer), so we should disband this herd.
Lars, what do you think?

[Comment 2 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) 2016-01-07 09:28:38 UTC]

(In reply to Bernard Cafarelli from comment #1)
> If my grep skills do not fail me:
> /usr/portage/net-ftp/cmdftp/metadata.xml:<herd>net-ftp</herd>
> /usr/portage/net-ftp/filezilla/metadata.xml:  <herd>net-ftp</herd>
> /usr/portage/net-ftp/proftpd/metadata.xml:	<herd>net-ftp</herd>
> /usr/portage/net-ftp/pure-ftpd/metadata.xml:<herd>net-ftp</herd>
> /usr/portage/net-ftp/tlswrap/metadata.xml:	<herd>net-ftp</herd>
> /usr/portage/net-ftp/vsftpd/metadata.xml:	<herd>net-ftp</herd>
> 
> I think it is not worth having a project to handle these (and most of these
> packages are better with a specific maintainer), so we should disband this
> herd.
> Lars, what do you think?

I agree. Personally I am interested in net-ftp/filezilla and net-ftp/pure-ftpd

[Comment 3 Bernard Cafarelli 2016-01-12 09:09:53 UTC]

OK, let's go with option 3 then!

[Comment 4 Michael Palimaka (kensington) 2016-01-12 11:44:53 UTC]

Thanks, updated the mapping to reflect the decision to disband the herd.

[Comment 5 Michał Górny 2016-01-12 11:56:03 UTC]

Just to be clear, which variant of disbanding do you prefer:

1. replacing it with both of you in all packages,

2. removing it with no direct replacement (you'd have to add yourselves before)?

[Comment 6 Bernard Cafarelli 2016-01-12 12:39:51 UTC]

No direct replacement, most of these have specific maintainers (Lars, feel free to add yourself to filezilla metadata), the others will be better with maintainer-needed

[Comment 7 Michał Górny 2016-01-12 12:59:16 UTC]

Ok, noted. Please add yourself to metadata in packages which you don't want to go into maintainer-needed since I will be announcing new maintainer-needed packages after the conversion.