Re: [gentoo-project] Re: RFC: a few new rules for repositories in repositories.xml

[Michał Górny]

Dnia 2015-05-15, o godz. 09:12:32
Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> napisał(a):

> >>>>> On Fri, 15 May 2015, Michał Górny wrote:
>
> > 2. Each rule violation is reported to the repository owners via
> > Bugzilla [mail if no Bugzilla account during transition period].
> > The owners need to reply to the report in 14 days. The underlying
> > issue needs to be fixed in 30 days. If either of the deadlines is
> > not met, the repository is removed from repositories.xml.
>
> These deadlines seem to be rather short. For users, there is no such
> mechanism as a .devaway, so especially the 14 days could be easily
> missed.

What's the gain of keeping a overlay that doesn't work? As
the rationale points out, readding it once fixed is rather easy.

> > 4. Repositories need to conform to at least basic rules enforced by
> > the PMS or the common subset of features supported by Portage,
> > pkgcore and Paludis.
>
> I wonder about this wording. Just say that repositories shall conform
> to PMS.

Ok. Didn't want to get people too complainty in case they do some
random hackery that's not *that* terrible.

> That doesn't preclude someone from using their own package manager
> fork and their own (non-PMS) EAPIs in a repository.
>
> > 6. Repository must specify valid masters. All masters must be
> > available in repositories.xml.
>
> Except for the gentoo repository aka the portage tree. :)

$ layman -i gentoo

 * gentoo
 * ~~~~~~
 * Sources:
 *   1. rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage
 *   2. https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo-portage-rsync-mirror
 * 
 * Contact : infra@g.o
 * Type    : Git/Rsync; Priority: 50
 * Quality : core
 * 
 * Description:
 *   Official Gentoo ebuild repository
 * 
 * Link:
 *   http://gentoo.org/
 * 


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Best regards,
Michał Górny