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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: robbat2@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v3 10/12] glep-0063: Make 2-yearly expiration term mandatory
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2018 06:53:16
Message-Id: 1530859987.869.8.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v3 10/12] glep-0063: Make 2-yearly expiration term mandatory by Ulrich Mueller
1 W dniu pią, 06.07.2018 o godzinie 08∶40 +0200, użytkownik Ulrich Mueller
2 napisał:
3 > > > > > > On Fri, 06 Jul 2018, Michał Górny wrote:
4 > > Did you even read the text? It's 'at most 2 years'. If you renew it
5 > > every year, you can achieve the desired effect while keeping far
6 > > ahead of the required schedule.
7 >
8 > So effectively we're down from 5 years to 1 year also for the main
9 > key, as a mandatory requirement? That is not what I have perceived
10 > as the consensus in the discussion so far.
11
12 No, effectively we have 2 years unless developers are picky, in which
13 case it's their problem and not mine.
14
15 > > I really see no point in added complexity just so that someone could
16 > > bend the standard to the limits.
17 >
18 > It isn't complicated in the current version of GLEP 63 ("5 years
19 > maximum").
20
21 5 years is insane.
22
23 > Simply keep that wording, or moderately shorten it, to
24 > something like 3 years, or 2.25 years. (Or if you prefer round
25 > numbers, 800 days, or 70000000 seconds.) :-)
26 >
27
28 If I do it 3 years, you're going to complain that now you have to update
29 it every 2 years because it's not 3 years + 2 weeks...
30
31 --
32 Best regards,
33 Michał Górny

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