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 the single member of the herd, I am not sure it is worth converting in a project. There are about 150 packages in it (but mass-updating metadata.xml is easier now with git), split in more or less 3 categories: - gkrellm and friends: I don't use it at all, and would be better with a specific maintainer app-admin/gkrellm media-plugins/gkrellmpc x11-plugins/gkrellaclock x11-plugins/gkrellfire x11-plugins/gkrellflynn x11-plugins/gkrellkam x11-plugins/gkrellm-bgchanger x11-plugins/gkrellm-bluez x11-plugins/gkrellm-countdown x11-plugins/gkrellm-imonc x11-plugins/gkrellm-leds x11-plugins/gkrellm-mailwatch x11-plugins/gkrellm-plugins x11-plugins/gkrellm-radio x11-plugins/gkrellm-trayicons x11-plugins/gkrellm-vaiobright x11-plugins/gkrellm-volume x11-plugins/gkrellm-xkb x11-plugins/gkrellmlaunch x11-plugins/gkrellmoon x11-plugins/gkrellmss x11-plugins/gkrellmwireless x11-plugins/gkrellshoot x11-plugins/gkrellstock x11-plugins/gkrellsun x11-plugins/gkrelltop x11-plugins/gkrellweather x11-plugins/gkwebmon x11-plugins/i8krellm - specific applications: again I do not use them, and most of them have dead upstream. Moving to maintainer-needed or treecleaning would be better x11-misc/stalonetray (still has active upstream) x11-misc/trayer x11-plugins/allin1 x11-misc/xdock - windowmaker dockapps: I use some of them and maintain the others, I can take them as direct maintainer: games-puzzle/wmpuzzle media-sound/alsamixer-app x11-libs/libdockapp x11-misc/mixer_app x11-plugins/bfm x11-plugins/bubblemon x11-plugins/cputnik x11-plugins/docker x11-plugins/fsviewer x11-plugins/monto x11-plugins/wmCalClock x11-plugins/wmDownload x11-plugins/wmMatrix x11-plugins/wmMoonClock x11-plugins/wmSMPmon x11-plugins/wmSpaceWeather x11-plugins/wmSun x11-plugins/wmXName x11-plugins/wmacpi x11-plugins/wmacpiload-ac x11-plugins/wmacpimon x11-plugins/wmail x11-plugins/wmapm x11-plugins/wmapmload x11-plugins/wmappl x11-plugins/wmbatteries x11-plugins/wmbattery x11-plugins/wmbiff x11-plugins/wmbinclock x11-plugins/wmbio x11-plugins/wmblob x11-plugins/wmbluecpu x11-plugins/wmbutton x11-plugins/wmcalc x11-plugins/wmcalendar x11-plugins/wmcdplay x11-plugins/wmcliphist x11-plugins/wmclock x11-plugins/wmclockmon x11-plugins/wmcms x11-plugins/wmcoincoin x11-plugins/wmcp x11-plugins/wmcpu x11-plugins/wmcpuload x11-plugins/wmcube x11-plugins/wmdate x11-plugins/wmdf x11-plugins/wmdiskmon x11-plugins/wmdl x11-plugins/wmdots x11-plugins/wmdrawer x11-plugins/wmfire x11-plugins/wmfishtime x11-plugins/wmforkplop x11-plugins/wmfortune x11-plugins/wmfrog x11-plugins/wmfsm x11-plugins/wmget x11-plugins/wmgrabimage x11-plugins/wmgtemp x11-plugins/wmhdplop x11-plugins/wmifinfo x11-plugins/wmifs x11-plugins/wminet x11-plugins/wmitime x11-plugins/wmix x11-plugins/wmjsql x11-plugins/wmlaptop x11-plugins/wmlife x11-plugins/wmload x11-plugins/wmlongrun x11-plugins/wmlpq x11-plugins/wmmaiload x11-plugins/wmmand x11-plugins/wmmemfree x11-plugins/wmmemload x11-plugins/wmmemmon x11-plugins/wmmenu x11-plugins/wmmisc x11-plugins/wmmixer x11-plugins/wmmldonkey x11-plugins/wmmon+smp x11-plugins/wmmon x11-plugins/wmmp3 x11-plugins/wmmsg x11-plugins/wmnd x11-plugins/wmnet x11-plugins/wmnetload x11-plugins/wmnetselect x11-plugins/wmpasman x11-plugins/wmpeople x11-plugins/wmpiki x11-plugins/wmpinboard x11-plugins/wmping x11-plugins/wmpop3 x11-plugins/wmpop3lb x11-plugins/wmpower x11-plugins/wmppp x11-plugins/wmrack x11-plugins/wmrecord x11-plugins/wmsmixer x11-plugins/wmsound x11-plugins/wmsvencd x11-plugins/wmswallow x11-plugins/wmsysmon x11-plugins/wmsystemtray x11-plugins/wmsystray x11-plugins/wmtime x11-plugins/wmtimer x11-plugins/wmtop x11-plugins/wmtz x11-plugins/wmudmount x11-plugins/wmupmon x11-plugins/wmwave x11-plugins/wmweather+ x11-plugins/wmweather x11-plugins/wmwifi x11-plugins/wmwork x11-plugins/wmxkb x11-plugins/wmxres
I'm going to send an official mail about this but long story short, we can only update all or none. So basically: 1. either we drop them all, and those who have no other maintainers land in maintainer-needed, 2. or we put you everywhere ;-). Any other option requires explicit action before or afterwards. Preferably before, since we'd have to announce new maintainer-needed packages after the conversion.
Sounds good, I will add myself to maintainers for the wm dockapps, so after that it will just be option 1 for this herd :)
Done, remaining ones without explicit maintainers should be for maintainer-needed
