On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 22:03:31 -0400 Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
wrote:
| > Could we get GLEP 31 (Character Sets for Portage Tree Items) added?
| > The only issue holding it back is that a few developers have stated
| > outright that they refuse to comply with it, and I don't see it as
| > fair to make other developers suffer nasty repoman errors because
| > of things a select few will end up breaking...
| 
| it was approved once already, just retracted after that fact pending
| further developments in terms of application/developer support
| (editors not sucking so much for example) ... so does it really need
| to be approved again ?

What I mean is... Is the council prepared to commit itself to helping
with enforcement of the GLEP? Adding repoman enforcement would be
trivial, but repoman is circumventable -- the GLEP is withdrawn because
several developers have said that they'll do just that anyway.

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