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From: "Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto" <jmbsvicetto@g.o>
To: gentoo-council@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-council] Agenda for September 14th meeting
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:25:50
Message-Id: 4AAC3BF9.7090308@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-council] Agenda for September 14th meeting by Ciaran McCreesh
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4 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
5 > On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 14:14:09 +0200 Tobias Scherbaum
6 > <dertobi123@g.o> wrote:
7 >> 3. EAPI/PMS (30 Minutes)
8 >>
9 >> 3.1. A process to modify PMS standard that doesn't directly
10 >> involve the EAPI process. As requested by "Joshua Jackson"
11 >> <tsunam@××××××.org> / User relations: Required people: tsuname,
12 >> ulm
13 >>
14 >> "Per bug http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=273261 I'm
15 >> requesting an AOB for the decision that was made by the PMS team
16 >> about a process or system to modify the PMS standard that doesn't
17 >> directly involve the EAPI process currently.
18 >>
19 >> I've set the hard date for them for the sept 10th meeting and
20 >> this gives them 3 weeks to work on this so it should be no issue
21 >> for them to come to this. I'm expecting them to be able to have a
22 >> result by then."
23 >
24 > I asked Joshua to retract this request because he was basing it on
25 > the mistaken impression that profiles weren't EAPI controlled (the
26 > Council voted to put profiles under EAPI control a while ago).
27 > Unfortunately he hasn't responded, so instead I'll ask the Council
28 > to disregard this since between the EAPI mechanism and the way
29 > we've used previously of not introducing changes that will break
30 > older things (by not reusing names, and not requiring support
31 > except on EAPI change) we've already got the whole thing covered.
32 >
33 Let me address another point that I missed in my previous email.
34 We are not disputing that profiles/ fall under PMS. Instead, we're
35 just arguing that EAPI should be restricted to its intended purpose
36 "Ebuild API".
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38 - --
39 Regards,
40
41 Jorge Vicetto (jmbsvicetto) - jmbsvicetto at gentoo dot org
42 Gentoo- forums / Userrel / Devrel / SPARC / KDE
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