Herds on BAFM

metadata-xml

Sat, 16 Aug 2014 10:04:45 +0000

So I ended up cleaning out some retired (~20) people from metadata.xml, where I found this interesting piece of metadata.xml:

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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.

metadata-xml (the second)

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:04:27 +0000

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:

metadata-xml (the third)

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:14:28 +0000

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:

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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