Re: [gentoo-dev] What is "official"?

[Luis Francisco Araujo]

Everything maintained by the Gentoo project, instead than for the Gentoo 
project.

Stuart Herbert wrote:
> Hi,
>
> One of the issues that the o.g.o project has brought to a head is the
> definition of what is "official" and what is not "official" when it
> comes to Gentoo.  The term is already being thrown about in the
> Project Sunrise thread; I'm sure it'll come up again in future.
>
> It's an issue I think we should discuss and find an agreement on.
>
> Personally, I think what makes something official or not is 100% down
> to who does it.  I think something is official if it is done by the
> project (where a project matches the definition in the metastructure
> project) responsible for whatever we're applying the label "official"
> to, then that's all that matters.
>
> So (picking something entirely at random for an example), if the Java
> project had an overlay somewhere (say, on gentooexperimental.org),
> because it's their overlay, the overlay is "official".  Doesn't matter
> where it is hosted - all that matters is that it is run by the Java
> project.
>
> Equally (because it is the hot topic of the moment), Project Sunrise's
> overlay would be "official" because they're a Gentoo project.  The way
> to stop them being "official" is simply to have the Council pass a
> resolution to shut down the project.
>
> I think the other side of the term "official" is clarifying the scope
> of how far something can be "official".  Using the Java project as an
> example again (sorry guys :), the Java team can put in place
> "official" policies and procedures for what their team does, but that
> doesn't make them mandatory for the whole Gentoo project.  Other
> developers remain free to form competitive projects, and put their own
> "official" policies and procedures in place if they wish.
>
> (I hope I explained that last bit properly.  What I'm trying to do is
> keep in mind the terms of the metastructure document, which explicitly
> allow for two or more teams to be competing with each other).
>
> What are the alternatives?  If a project's activities are not
> automatically "official", then who gets to decide, and how is that
> decision made?  How can that decision be made fairly, without
> contradicting the metastructure, and without giving rise to any
> accusations of 'cabals'?
>
> Best regards,
> Stu

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