On Thursday 12 June 2008, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> On 04:11 Wed 11 Jun     , Brian Harring wrote:
> > Reiterating the early request, I'd like the council to please discuss
> > the current status of PMS,
>
> People actually working on the PMS would be better-placed to discuss its
> current status, if by that you mean progress toward an approved spec.
> The last I heard was a couple months ago when Ciaran asked us whether
> there were any further major issues and removed kdebuild-1 from the PDF
> to be approved.

he was told to remove kdebuild-1 from the repo and this has yet to happen

> > Effectively, we've watched it essentially progress into a standard
> > that effectively only the paludis folk are adherent to (if in doubt,
> > ask portage folk, my sending this mail is indicative of the pkgcore
> > standpoint)- it's about time the council comment upon it in light of
> > the general view.
>
> I'd like to know what's holding you back from contributing to it,
> instead of telling us that someone else is doing things you don't like.
> Is there some kind of technical barrier (like the TeX)? Or what? Are you
> filing bugs against the parts you don't like? What's happening to them?

TeX isnt a format that integrates with Gentoo.  should just convert it to 
docbook and be done with this garbage.
-mike