Re: [gentoo-dev] One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June

[Luca Barbato]

Doug Goldstein wrote:
> Doug Goldstein wrote:
>> Brian Harring wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 03:06:17AM +0000, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>>>
>>>> This is your one-day friendly reminder !  The monthly Gentoo Council
>>>> meeting is tomorrow in #gentoo-council on irc.freenode.net.  See the
>>>> channel topic for the exact time (but it's probably 2000 UTC).
>>>>
>>>> If you're supposed to show up, please show up.  If you're not supposed
>>>> to show up, then show up anyways and watch your Council monkeys dance
>>>> for you.
>>>>
>>>> For more info on the Gentoo Council, feel free to browse our homepage:
>>>> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/
>>>>
>>>
>>> Reiterating the early request, I'd like the council to please discuss
>>> the current status of PMS, if the running of it satisfys the councils
>>> requirements of a *neutral* standard, if the proposed spec actually
>>> meets said standards, and if said spec is actually going to be
>>> approved sometimes this side of '09.
>>>
>>> Effectively, we've watched it essentially progress into a standard
>>> that effectively only the paludis folk are adherent to (if in doubt,
>>> ask portage folk, my sending this mail is indicative of the pkgcore
>>> standpoint)- it's about time the council comment upon it in light of
>>> the general view.
>>>
>>> Yes, ciaran shall comment.  My request still stands.
>>> Thanks,
>>> ~harring
>>>
>> I'd honestly like to see an official PMS project page i.e.
>> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/pms/
>>
>> On this page it'd be nice if there was an official link to the current
>> PMS instead of having to rely on grabbing it from random locations
>> i.e. d.g.o/~coldwind/ or d.g.o/~spb/
>
> Allow me to clarify a bit more. I'd like to see a collaborative website
> that developers for all actively maintained package managers can
> contribute to and update providing details about compatibility and
> implementation of the PMS and future additions or revisions of the PMS
> that will be put forth before the Gentoo Council.

I agree with Cardoe, the specification should be made as useful as 
possible to the package maintainers, as accessible as possible by every 
interested party and possibly have a regression/conformance test built 
in (such a small tree with dummy ebuilds and eclasses) to allow 
automated validation. Stronger and well defined versioning should help 
as well.

lu

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Luca Barbato
Gentoo Council Member
Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC
http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero

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