Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: The request to abolish games team policy

[Michał Górny]

Dnia 2014-07-08, o godz. 20:52:49
Michael Palimaka <kensington@g.o> napisał(a):

> On 07/08/2014 07:45 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
> > I would like to ask the Council to abolish the following policies that
> > have been established by the games team:
> >
> > 1. that the games team has authority over the actual maintainers
> > on every game ebuild,
> >
> > 2. that every ebuild has to inherit games.eclass as the last eclass
> > inherited [1], even if it actually increases the ebuild size rather
> > than helping,
> >
> > 3. that games must adhere to games team-specific install locations
> > and ownership rules, shortly listed in [2].
>
> Why is Council intervention needed to abolish these policies? They're
> not binding.
> As far as I know, the games team has no special status so like any other
> project they can recommend whatever they want - nobody is obliged to
> listen (I certainly don't).

The games team believes that they're binding. In fact, I recall one of
the team members remarking explicitly that they're going to alter
ebuilds that were committed without their approval.

In fact, they did remove ebuilds from the tree in the past for this
reason [1].

[1]:http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/games-strategy/openxcom/?hideattic=0

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny