Re: [gentoo-project] Council meeting 2021-07-11 - call for agenda items

[Aaron Bauman]

On Tue, Jul 06, 2021 at 09:02:14AM +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> >>>>> On Mon, 05 Jul 2021, Aaron Bauman wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jul 05, 2021 at 11:42:36PM +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> >> The point is that banning an EAPI doesn't have any noticeable effect.
> >> For example, if you look at EAPI 0 (banned on 2016-01-10) and EAPI 4
> >> (banned on 2018-04-08), there's neither a cusp nor any change of slope
> >> visible for the curves plotted here:
> >> https://www.akhuettel.de/~huettel/plots/eapi.php
>
> > We have had the issue in the past. Taking 1 minute to vote on a ban of
> > an EAPI in a council meeting is a minute task and enforces the goals
> > of the project.
>
> But we don't actually enforce the ban. Doing so would mean adding the
> EAPI to eapis-banned in layout.conf, which in turn would imply that
> commits of (new or existing) ebuilds with a banned EAPI would be
> rejected.
>
> Ulrich

I know we don't technically enforce the ban as there is no mechanism to
do so. It is a terrible in-between.

So, it is a formality that takes a minute to vote on. Then, if someone
should be an asshole and keep committing things that are deprecated it
can be enforced by the QA team or other developers.

I ask to keep the formality until a technical solution is in place as we
*have* had the issue before. While it is not statistically significant
it did cause undue pain for others.

-Aaron