Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Policies for games dirs, new group "gamestat" for sgid binaries

[hasufell]

Ulrich Mueller:
>>>>>> On Thu, 19 Feb 2015, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
>
>> In yesterday's meeting the QA team has unanimously accepted the
>> following policies (see bug 537580 for details):
>
>> 1. Directories /usr/games, /usr/games/bin, /usr/games/lib*,
>>    /usr/share/games, /var/games, /etc/games, and /opt must be owned
>>    by root:root and have permissions 755 (i.e. the default).
>
>> This will require a small change in games.eclass, because currently
>> prepgamesdirs() changes ownership of these directories to root:games
>> and mode to 0750, so they are readable only by users that are members
>> of the "games" group. With attached patch, games.eclass will no longer
>> change permissions of the top-level directories (mostly, these are
>> identical to the FHS locations).
>
>> [...]
>
>> 2. A new group to allow setgid binaries to access shared score/state
>>    files will be created. The name of this group will be "gamestat".
>
> The change to games.eclass has been committed now, and the policy is
> documented here:
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Quality_Assurance/Policies#Games
>


Has this been done in cooperation with the games team? If not, why?

I think QA should make a clear statement if they are acting above a
projects head and why they had to do so, because this doesn't look like
a joint effort.