[gentoo-dev] RFC: isodate for packages.mask starting on 2019-07-01

[Jonas Stein]

Dear all,

Situation:
We have different date formats in packages.mask.


Change:
I suggest that we start using the date format yyyy-mm-dd
for all dates in packages.mask
starting with 2019-07-01

The following changes in packages.mask will introduce the date format,
specify the timezone, and use Larry as example user.

3,6c3,6
< # When you add an entry to the top of this file, add your name, the
date, and
< # an explanation of why something is getting masked. Please be extremely
< # careful not to commit atoms that are not valid, as it can cause
large-scale
< # breakage, especially if it ends up in the daily snapshot.
---
> # When you add an entry to the top of this file, add your name, the date
> # in the UTC timezone, and an explanation of why something is getting
masked.
> # Please be extremely careful not to commit atoms that are not valid,
as it can
> # cause large-scale breakage, especially if it ends up in the daily
snapshot.
10c10
< ## # Dev E. Loper <developer@g.o> (28 Jun 2012)
---
> ## # Larry the cow <larry@g.o> (2019-07-01)
24,26c24,26
< ## # Dev E. Loper <developer@g.o> (23 May 2015)
< ## # Masked for removal in 30 days.  Doesn't work
< ## # with new libfoo. Upstream dead, gtk-1, smells
---
> ## # Larry the cow <larry@g.o> (2019-07-01)
> ## # Masked for removal after 2019-08-01.
> ## # Doesn't work with new libfoo. Upstream dead, gtk-1, smells


Reason:
* Larry is the Gentoo Example
* 2019-01-01 + 30 days is unclear, if we do not use UTC time
* The new date format is easy to read and write and easy to parse
internationally.

Do you have any objections?


By the way, you can get a formatted string of now in UTC with:
date -u +"%Y-%m-%d"

-- 
Best,
Jonas