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
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
(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 app-backup@gentoo.org 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
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.
(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.
Thanks a lot for following up. I've updated the mapping appropriately.
