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Hi Kent, |
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On Tue, Nov 05, 2019 at 10:50:09AM +1300, Kent Fredric wrote: |
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> On Mon, 4 Nov 2019 10:53:44 -0500 |
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> Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> wrote: |
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> > To avoid these sorts of questions in the future, it might be worth the |
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> > time it would take to vote on each of these policies formally, document |
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> > them on the wiki, and then move the related checks to ::gentoo/metadata |
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> > where other package managers can benefit from them (and where they can't |
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> > be unilaterally nuked). Having a comprehensive list of policies will |
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> > also help developers who want to Do The Right Thing and who read up on |
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> > these things proactively. |
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> I believe the place for these is in the dev-manual[1] |
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> If not the dev-manual, then if there is some other source of authority |
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> where they end up, there should be some mechanism to relay them to the |
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> dev-manual. |
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> Its hard to expect people to follow a policy that is mostly codified in |
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> tools and cultural wisdom. |
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You are correct. When I was on the team, the idea was that the devmanual |
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was the cannonical source for all qa policies. |
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I'm not on the team now but I would strongly support this. |
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William |
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> 1: https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/497c28fb2dab0a480c302ba966481f4f |
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