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On 07/08/2014 07:45 AM, Micha³ Górny wrote: |
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> Dear Community, |
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> First of all, please do not take this personally. I don't want to |
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> attack any member of the games team or the team in general. I respect |
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> their experience and long-term contribution to Gentoo. However, |
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> I strongly disagree with the policy games team has established and I |
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> believe that their actions do not serve the best interest of Gentoo. |
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> I am therefore going to propose this request to the next Council. Since |
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> this will likely require a fair amount of prior discussion, I would |
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> like to start it already, hopefully reaching at least some point before |
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> the appropriate Council meeting. |
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> I would like to ask the Council to abolish the following policies that |
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> have been established by the games team: |
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> 1. that the games team has authority over the actual maintainers |
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> on every game ebuild, |
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> 2. that every ebuild has to inherit games.eclass as the last eclass |
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> inherited [1], even if it actually increases the ebuild size rather |
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> than helping, |
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> 3. that games must adhere to games team-specific install locations |
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> and ownership rules, shortly listed in [2]. |
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Why is Council intervention needed to abolish these policies? They're |
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not binding. |
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As far as I know, the games team has no special status so like any other |
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project they can recommend whatever they want - nobody is obliged to |
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listen (I certainly don't). |
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