Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2014-03-11

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Mon, 3 Mar 2014, Rich Freeman wrote:

> I think we do need to be careful about not creating barriers to
> maintenance like this. If people are given the choice of doing a lot
> of work to make a small improvement vs not doing an improvement at
> all, they'll often pick the latter.

> We definitely want to phase out the old EAPIs, but changes to
> existing ebuilds shouldn't require bringing them fully up-to-date.
> It should be done if it makes sense, however (at the discretion of
> the person doing the work).

If changing ebuilds to a banned EAPI is allowed, then we can as well
lift the ban altogether: I could create a new ebuild under some
allowed EAPI, then change it to a banned one, and it would still be
within the rules.

That's not what I would call a consistent policy. In this case, we
should better revert our decision from February.

Ulrich