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From: Kent Fredric <kentnl@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Do (old-ish) Portage QA checks comprise policy?
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2019 21:50:30
Message-Id: 20191105105009.7d39fc5f@katipo2.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Do (old-ish) Portage QA checks comprise policy? by Michael Orlitzky
1 On Mon, 4 Nov 2019 10:53:44 -0500
2 Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > To avoid these sorts of questions in the future, it might be worth the
5 > time it would take to vote on each of these policies formally, document
6 > them on the wiki, and then move the related checks to ::gentoo/metadata
7 > where other package managers can benefit from them (and where they can't
8 > be unilaterally nuked). Having a comprehensive list of policies will
9 > also help developers who want to Do The Right Thing and who read up on
10 > these things proactively.
11
12 I believe the place for these is in the dev-manual[1]
13
14 If not the dev-manual, then if there is some other source of authority
15 where they end up, there should be some mechanism to relay them to the
16 dev-manual.
17
18 Its hard to expect people to follow a policy that is mostly codified in
19 tools and cultural wisdom.
20
21 1: https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/497c28fb2dab0a480c302ba966481f4f

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Do (old-ish) Portage QA checks comprise policy? William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>