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
@freedesktop, I suggest forming a new project.
Sounds ok to me.
I took the liberty of creating https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Freedesktop, so interested people should add themselves. I'm not sure if we want to switch email freedesktop-bugs@ -> freedesktop@ for consistency with other projects or not.
(In reply to Michael Palimaka (kensington) from comment #3) > I'm not sure if we want to switch email freedesktop-bugs@ -> freedesktop@ > for consistency with other projects or not. +1 I have always hate having some projects addresses that need "-bugs" sometimes, others not... :S
I'd suggest not changing emails right now. We may be deploying @proj.g.o one day.
Shall we close this bug now that the wiki page is up and mostly filled ?
If the mapping is updated, then yes. Otherwise, please update the mapping first.
The freedesktop herd consisted of herds gnome, kde, xfce, lxde, lxqt and mate as maintainers, but the project page seems to have just a few individual members?
(In reply to Mart Raudsepp from comment #8) > The freedesktop herd consisted of herds gnome, kde, xfce, lxde, lxqt and > mate as maintainers, but the project page seems to have just a few > individual members? This never really made much sense to me, and I don't think is a good reflection on how freedesktop packages were actually maintained.
It was just done this way to reflect what freedesktop/XDG is supposed to be upstream. Any herds listed is using these packages and so might want to upgrade/fix them. I don't really care how it is expressed as long as there is real people taking care of packages, which is not as many as the current listing suggest :).
