So I ended up cleaning out some retired (~20) people from metadata.xml, where I found this interesting piece of metadata.xml: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 kernel-misc crypto@gentoo.org Crypto herd masterdriverz@gentoo.org Charlie Shephered And here the hint for all you people again: A DAMN HERD AIN’T NO MAINTAINER. SO IF YOUR HERD IS MAINTAINING A PACKAGE, PUT IT INTO and not into the . kthnxbye.
As I was kinda bored after work today, I had a closer look at what I saw during my fuckup in the morning. Well, Steve said, that when he looked at metadata.xml it’d be " really common" .. still that isn’t making it right .. There is a reason we do have a herds.xml (exactly for the reason to associate people with packages, and that’s what the tag is for in metadata.xml) file. So after a preliminary look through the repository, here are the winners: ...
So Petteri came up with a nifty python script ( local), which in return spit out this. Which generated a rather complete list ( local), that looks like this: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 700: perl 569: maintainer-needed 128: media-video 126: xemacs 47: sound 32: ha-cluster 32: crypto 19: desktop-misc 16: netmon 15: forensics 13: web-apps 10: pam-bugs 8: vserver-devs 8: mips 8: embedded 8: app-backup 8: apache-bugs 8: alsa-bugs 7: net-im 7: kde 6: tcltk 6: media-tv 6: dev-embedded 5: voip 5: theology 5: samba 5: net-p2p 5: freedesktop-bugs 4: sparc 4: java 4: graphics 2: net-mail 2: ldap-bugs 2: kernel 2: fonts 2: cpp 1: x11 1: wxwidgets 1: www-servers 1: tex 1: shell-tools 1: sgml 1: sci 1: qmail-bugs 1: python 1: proaudio 1: media-optical 1: kerberos 1: hp-cluster 1: amd64