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From: plasmaroo@gentoo.org (Tim Yamin)
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 49 - take 2
Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 16:37:44
Message-Id: 20060522163140.GA16501@woodpecker.gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 49 - take 2 by Thomas Cort
1 On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 08:47:22AM +0000, Thomas Cort wrote:
2 > So what I suggest is the following:
3 >
4 > "While it is desirable that the primary package manager be maintained
5 > on official gentoo infrastructure, under the control of gentoo
6 > developers, it is not required. During the path to becoming the primary
7 > package manager, the package manager maintainers must be asked if they
8 > would like their project to be an official Gentoo project. All rules
9 > about projects apply. The package manager maintainers have the right to
10 > refuse such an offer if there is a team of at least 3 Gentoo developers
11 > that understand the package manager source code and are willing to deal
12 > with bugs, testing, feature enhancements, modifications, and
13 > integration."
14
15 Maybe I'm reading it wrong but the above sounds like if there's less than
16 "3 Gentoo developers that understand... ... ..." the package maintainers
17 *don't* have the right to refuse and magically get sucked into Gentoo
18 whether they like it or not?
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Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 49 - take 2 Stephen Bennett <spb@g.o>