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

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On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 2:33 PM, Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o> wrote:
> On 12/17/17 19:39, Mike Gilbert 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.
>>
> As a user I would like to ask everyone involved to stick to the 32kB
> limit so that we (as in everyone) don't have to fetch megabytes of
> patches we'll never use, just because someone was lazy.
>

How easy is it to move patches to Gentoo infrastructure if the patches
are not provided by upstream? I am slightly uncomfortable with
everything being pushed to websites like GitHub by default.