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On Thu, 3 Nov 2016 21:49:16 +0000 Robin H. Johnson wrote: |
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> On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 05:36:03PM -0400, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: |
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> > On Thursday, November 3, 2016 9:14:56 AM EDT William Hubbs wrote: |
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> I have posted about this subject before, and I'll go and dust off the |
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> proposal with the last changes added, when I have time soon hopefully. |
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> > > I am also in favor of the metadata approach. |
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> > The only downfall is you end up with lots of package/developer specific |
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> > policies which may become complex and a nuisance. It is likely better to have |
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> > more of a global policy. |
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> Sure, global policies help (as a sane default), but being able to tell |
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> people the most common cases is important: |
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> 1. Yes, touch it, but please ask me (DEFAULT, including timeout value) |
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> 2. Yes, go ahead and touch this package, and don't ask me |
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> 3. danger will robinson! this is fragile! |
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> I'm going to set #2 on the great majority of the 200+ packages that I |
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> directly maintain. |
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> Make it easy to open a package up to MORE changes, and hard to restrict. |
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Looks like a reasonable approach. Probably it is worth to set |
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global policy describing these options and setting default |
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value. Should this issue be discussed with the council now? |
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As for implementation, repoman checks accepting this field should |
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be added, and skel.metadata.xml may be updated. I see no other |
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required changes, though I may miss something. |
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Best regards, |
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Andrew Savchenko |
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