Re: [RFC] Putting extra package maintenance in maint/ subdirs

Michał Górny <[email protected]> Mon, 01 Jun 2026 11:54:13 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.gentoo.devel
Organization	Gentoo
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Mon, 2026-06-01 at 11:47 +0200, Jaco Kroon wrote:
> I support /maint/{project} suggestion too, was thinking the same even 
> before reading that's what you suggest as an option.  Perhaps with the 
> amendment that it's maint/{group} (which could belong to a specific 
> project but need not, or at least maint/{project}(_{group})? - but what 
> about groups of packages maintained by a single maintainer not as part 
> of a project? maint/{[email protected]} in that case perhaps?  
> Eg, jkroon_asterisk or jkroon_aws ?

"Project" in the sense of "related group of packages".  Not necessarily
a Gentoo project, just some identifier.  We don't want to put people's
names there, since that would mean renaming whenever maintainers change.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny

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