[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo Council Reminder for August 7

[Duncan]

"Stephen Bennett" <spbennett@×××××.com> posted
b38cd4360808041129i967e24eud0b2fa9f4e544dee@××××××××××.com, excerpted
below, on  Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:29:14 +0000:

> I would like to put forward the following suggestion for the Council's
> consideration:
>
> "While the current state of PMS is not perfect, it is a reasonably close
> approximation to existing and historical behaviour of EAPI 0. Given
> this, and that getting a perfect definition is not feasible on a
> timescale shorter than several years, it should be treated as a draft
> standard, and any deviations from it found in the gentoo tree or package
> managers should have a bug filed against either the deviator or PMS to
> resolve the differences.

Has any tracking been done on the tree as it currently exists such that 
an estimate of the number of such bugs expected can be made?  Surely, 
while thinking about making a commitment to the statement above, the 
number of bugs it's going to trigger is apropos.

> "On the differences between EAPI 0 and EAPI 1, a much smaller topic, it
> is complete and can stand as a full specification"
>
> Alternatively, what (specific) changes are required to PMS before such a
> statement can be made?

As an alternate, if there's not such a list, perhaps the proposal should 
suggest creating one, possibly by going ahead and filing those bugs, with 
an appropriate keyword and/or special assignee for the time being, such 
that we at least have an idea of the size of the job ahead, without them 
counting against package maintainers, etc, bug-count at this time.  (They 
could still be CCed and/or initial assignee, but if the latter, they'd be 
free to reassign to the special assignee for the moment, if so desired.)

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