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From: Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI usage in main tree
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 12:27:32
Message-Id: 20110125122549.GA25322@Eternity.halls.manchester.ac.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI usage in main tree by "Paweł Hajdan
1 On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 01:13:06PM +0100, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote:
2 > On 1/25/11 12:20 PM, Tomáš Chvátal wrote:
3 > > I would like to upgrade tree-wide policy for EAPI usage in main tree.
4 >
5 > I have a great idea for you.
6 >
7 > How about creating a project (possibly a subproject of QA or something
8 > else) that would help people do that? In case of no response from
9 > maintainers just do your job, and that should get the tree converted
10 > more quickly than setting a policy.
11 Please don't! QA is way too understaffed. We ain't gonna convert any
12 ebuilds. This has nothing to do with QA. Let maintainers handle this
13 >
14 > My main point is that said "X should be Y" does not automatically make
15 > it so. We'd have to think about the migration plan anyway.
16 >
17 > Paweł
18 >
19 @Tomas, I don't follow. You mean migrate existing ebuilds or use the
20 latest EAPI from now on?
21
22 Regards,
23 --
24 Markos Chandras (hwoarang)
25 Gentoo Linux Developer
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Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI usage in main tree "Tomáš Chvátal" <scarabeus@g.o>