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>>>>> On Fri, 15 May 2015, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> 2. Each rule violation is reported to the repository owners via |
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> Bugzilla [mail if no Bugzilla account during transition period]. |
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> The owners need to reply to the report in 14 days. The underlying |
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> issue needs to be fixed in 30 days. If either of the deadlines is |
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> not met, the repository is removed from repositories.xml. |
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These deadlines seem to be rather short. For users, there is no such |
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mechanism as a .devaway, so especially the 14 days could be easily |
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missed. |
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> 4. Repositories need to conform to at least basic rules enforced by |
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> the PMS or the common subset of features supported by Portage, |
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> pkgcore and Paludis. |
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I wonder about this wording. Just say that repositories shall conform |
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to PMS. |
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That doesn't preclude someone from using their own package manager |
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fork and their own (non-PMS) EAPIs in a repository. |
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> 6. Repository must specify valid masters. All masters must be |
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> available in repositories.xml. |
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Except for the gentoo repository aka the portage tree. :) |
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Ulrich |
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