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From: "Petteri Raty (betelgeuse)" <betelgeuse@g.o>
To: gentoo-commits@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-commits] gentoo commit in xml/htdocs/proj/en/devrel/handbook: hb-policy-etiquette.xml
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 16:07:42
Message-Id: 20100929160737.1FA6220051@flycatcher.gentoo.org
1 betelgeuse 10/09/29 16:07:37
2
3 Modified: hb-policy-etiquette.xml
4 Log:
5 Remove revision bumping guidelines from Etiquette policy as the canonical source of information is devmanual.
6
7 Revision Changes Path
8 1.14 xml/htdocs/proj/en/devrel/handbook/hb-policy-etiquette.xml
9
10 file : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewvc.cgi/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/devrel/handbook/hb-policy-etiquette.xml?rev=1.14&view=markup
11 plain: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewvc.cgi/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/devrel/handbook/hb-policy-etiquette.xml?rev=1.14&content-type=text/plain
12 diff : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewvc.cgi/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/devrel/handbook/hb-policy-etiquette.xml?r1=1.13&r2=1.14
13
14 Index: hb-policy-etiquette.xml
15 ===================================================================
16 RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/devrel/handbook/hb-policy-etiquette.xml,v
17 retrieving revision 1.13
18 retrieving revision 1.14
19 diff -u -r1.13 -r1.14
20 --- hb-policy-etiquette.xml 7 Mar 2007 12:38:39 -0000 1.13
21 +++ hb-policy-etiquette.xml 29 Sep 2010 16:07:37 -0000 1.14
22 @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
23 <!-- The content of this document is licensed under the CC-BY-SA license -->
24 <!-- See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/1.0 -->
25
26 -<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/devrel/handbook/hb-policy-etiquette.xml,v 1.13 2007/03/07 12:38:39 kloeri Exp $ -->
27 +<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/devrel/handbook/hb-policy-etiquette.xml,v 1.14 2010/09/29 16:07:37 betelgeuse Exp $ -->
28
29 <sections>
30 <version>1.0.2</version>
31 @@ -137,26 +137,6 @@
32
33 <ul>
34 <li>
35 - Try to not bump ebuilds continuously unless there really <b>is</b> a
36 - benefit or a security fix which is important. Unnecessary examples
37 - of bumping include:
38 - <ul>
39 - <li>
40 - You change minor spelling errors in script file comments, script file
41 - indentation or something similar.
42 - </li>
43 - <li>
44 - You patch a non-kernel ebuild to support a new kernel version (or
45 - a new version of a library), allowing more users to install your ebuild,
46 - but not changing anything for existing users of the current revision.
47 - </li>
48 - </ul>
49 - As a general rule, fixes with non-trivial changes to any of the installed
50 - files of any ebuild warrant a revision bump. Put differently: If your fix
51 - changes the behaviour for existing users, you bump so that they know they
52 - can upgrade. See ebuild policy for more details.
53 - </li>
54 - <li>
55 Respect developers' coding preferences. Unnecessarily changing
56 the syntax of an ebuild increases the load on the CVS server and
57 can cause complications for others. Syntax changes should only be