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

[Aaron Bauman]

On Mon, Jul 05, 2021 at 11:42:36PM +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> >>>>> On Mon, 05 Jul 2021, Aaron Bauman wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jul 05, 2021 at 12:17:35PM +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> >> In the past, the council had also banned EAPIs. However, that didn't
> >> make much of a practical difference because an EAPI cannot be added
> >> to eapis-banned in layout.conf unless all ebuilds are gone. Maybe we
> >> should have a rule like the following instead:
> >> "A deprecated EAPI is considered banned when the Gentoo repository
> >> no longer contains any ebuilds using it."
>
> > Having the council vote to officially ban an EAPI does have
> > practicality. The work done by those porting ebuilds, removing old
> > packages, etc is hindered when other begin committing ebuilds
> > deprecated but not banned.
>
> > I would ask that the council continue the official motions and votes
> > to ban EAPI's prior to being "enforced" by tooling. This assists those
> > doing the work and the QA team to stop people from committing.
>
> 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
>
> Ulrich

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.

Doesn't really matter to me either way.

Cool data.

-Aaron