Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] January 2010 meeting date

[Zac Medico]

On 12/26/2009 05:15 AM, Thomas Sachau wrote:
> On 12/26/2009 11:25 AM, Fabian Groffen wrote:
>> On 25-12-2009 15:00:36 +0100, Thomas Sachau wrote:
>>> Did you actually read my lines? I did NOT request an ACK to add it to
>>> PMS and next EAPI with a complete spec. zmedico also has no problem
>>> with having a look and adding it, but since he was once forced to
>>> remove an added feature, he now wants a council-ok before adding and
>>> improving it in testing branch of main tree portage.
>>
>> >From my experience they just want to get some grip on the issue.  A
>> formal description helps sometimes.
>
> As i already said: My implementation is not final nor do i request some PMS changes or EAPI bump for
> it. I simply want some more help and feedback by getting it in the 2.2_rc* branch of portage and
> zmedico just wants an ok from council, so that they wont force him to remove it again.

The council needs to approve the merging of multilib support into
mainline portage since ebuild developers will be expected to
help/cooperate in fixing any issues that may arise due to
interaction with the new multilib behavior. The role of imposing new
expectations like this belongs to the council, not to me or the
portage team.
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Thanks,
Zac