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>>>>> On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> I shall remind you, the Council-approved process for PMS changes is |
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> to send them to this list, and if unanimous agreement can't be |
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> reached, then to escalate the issue to the Council. |
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> [...] |
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> Sorry, but the Council-approved procedure is that patches get sent |
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> to this list and don't get committed until there aren't objections. |
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> We don't commit things until everyone's happy with them. |
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Can you provide a reference for the above please? |
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> * When did it become policy to use the newest EAPI for ebuilds? I |
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> must've missed that becoming policy -- last I heard, policy was to |
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> use the oldest EAPI that provides everything you need to write a |
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> good ebuild. |
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I agree on this one. |
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> * Since PMS became 'suitable for use', we've never committed works |
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> in progress to master. We've always used branches for EAPI |
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> definitions that aren't complete, and we've never committed EAPIs |
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> that haven't had their wording approved by the Council to master. |
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> Why are we changing this policy? Where was this policy change |
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> discussed? |
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It's not very helpful to generalise. Let's look at the details, namely |
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Christian's commits instead: |
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- "Change minimum required Bash version from 3.0 to 3.2" |
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This is a patch prepared by tanderson, and fauli only fixed a |
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technical problem (footnotes) with LaTeX. I happen to have a log of |
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the discussion in #-dev. Also from your comments in bug 292646 I |
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got the impression that you had no objections to the change? |
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> * Why is disabling kdebuild-1 by default helpful? Why not take the |
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> reasonable steps already mentioned first, to ensure that the change |
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> does not have adverse impact? |
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- "Disable kdebuild-1 by default" |
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This just changes a binary flag from true to false, namely it |
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disables inclusion of kdebuild in the output document. How can this |
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change have any adverse impact? |
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Ulrich |