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From: Daniel Robbins <drobbins.daniel@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 06:33:02
Message-Id: 226689f10703022228n7235964g68ce6582c2a57774@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting by Andrew Gaffney
1 OK, but it appears that PMS is not hosted on Gentoo infrastructure,
2 and its development is not controlled by Gentoo. Therefore it is not a
3 Gentoo project, and therefore the Council, QA, etc. should not be
4 treating it if it is a Gentoo project.
5
6 Right?
7
8 -Daniel
9
10 On 3/2/07, Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@g.o> wrote:
11 > Daniel Robbins wrote:
12 > > I don't understand half of what you said.
13 > >
14 > > You are saying that PMS is a sub-project of QA? Is the PMS spec hosted
15 > > on Gentoo infrastructure?
16 > >
17 > > From all I have read, PMS is meant to define the functionality of
18 > > Paludis itself, which is not a Gentoo project. Because of this, PMS
19 > > can't be considered a Gentoo project.
20 >
21 > That may be what it's meant to do now, but that was not the original purpose. It
22 > was originally to be a written specification of EAPI=0, which is essentially
23 > portage's current functionality. It's only later that the whole PMS == Paludis
24 > thing came about.
25 >
26 > --
27 > Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/
28 > Gentoo Linux Developer Installer Project
29 > --
30 > gentoo-dev@g.o mailing list
31 >
32 >
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@×××××××.org>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting Stephen Bennett <spb@g.o>