On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Stephen Bennett <spbennett@...> wrote:
>> If you have something you'd wish for us to chat about, maybe even vote
>> on, let us know! Simply reply to this e-mail for the whole Gentoo dev
>> list to see.
>
> I would like to put forward the following suggestion for the Council's
> consideration:
>
> "While the current state of PMS is not perfect, it is a reasonably
> close approximation to existing and historical behaviour of EAPI 0.
> Given this, and that getting a perfect definition is not feasible on a
> timescale shorter than several years, it should be treated as a draft
> standard, and any deviations from it found in the gentoo tree or
> package managers should have a bug filed against either the deviator
> or PMS to resolve the differences.

Is this not already the status quo?  Surely a number of bugs in the
tree have already been fixed in this manner.
Is there some reason why this needs to be stated explicity (eg. are
you having difficulty getting things fixed in the tree?)

-Alec

>
> "On the differences between EAPI 0 and EAPI 1, a much smaller topic,
> it is complete and can stand as a full specification"
>
> Alternatively, what (specific) changes are required to PMS before such
> a statement can be made?
>
>