Re: [gentoo-dev] [QA] New policy: 'files' directory must not be larger than 32 KiB

[Mike Gilbert]

On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 1:39 PM, Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 8:21 AM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
>> Hello, everyone.
>>
>> It's my pleasure to announce that with a majority vote the QA team has
>> accepted a new policy. The accepted wording is:
>>
>>   Total size of 'files' subdirectory of a package should not be larger
>>   than 32 KiB. If the package needs more auxiliary files, they should
>>   be put into SRC_URI e.g. via tarballs.
>>
>> (the total size being computed as a sum of apparent file sizes)
>>
>> The relevant policy vote is finishing at bug #633758 [1]. The CI reports
>>  [2] were updated to report packages whose 'files' directories exceed
>> 64 KiB, to avoid adding many new warnings at once. The limit will
>> be lowered down to 32 KiB as packages are fixed to comply with the new
>> policy.
>>
>> At the same time, I would like to explicitly remind developers that
>> the spirit of the policy is 'do not let "files" grow large', not 'make
>> sure you're one byte less than 32769.' Do not argue that your package
>> exceeds the limit only by few bytes -- even if it gets close to the
>> limit, then it means it's way too large.
>
> I just want to voice my opinion on this: as a developer, this policy
> is a royal pain in the ass.
>
> I would ask the council to please increase this limit to at least 100
> KiB, preferably more.

Please substitute "QA team" for "council" in the above message. Thanks.