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Hello, |
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In the last meeting, the Council has decided that the solution to |
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various problems with herds, projects etc. can't be achieved via ad-hoc |
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voting. Instead, a full proposal was to be proposed in form of a GLEP. |
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I have collected the most important points raised during the meeting, |
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and prepared a pre-GLEP for a new 'maintainership structure' [1]. |
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Quoting the abstract: |
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| Within this GLEP, the issues with the current package maintainer |
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| description system are explained, and a new system that aims to solve |
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| those issues is proposed. The current complex structure is replaced |
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| with two well-defined maintainer types — people and projects. Herds |
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| are removed in favor of projects, and project member listings are |
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| provided in XML format. Maintainer listings in metadata.xml become |
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| uniform, and can be used directly to assign bugs. |
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Please review, comment and answer the questions in TODOs ;-). |
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[1]:https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:MGorny/GLEP:Maintainership_structure |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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<http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/> |
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