From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EH1HU-0004li-Cv for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 18 Sep 2005 15:40:40 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j8IFYY4M010782; Sun, 18 Sep 2005 15:34:34 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j8IFWruQ028001 for ; Sun, 18 Sep 2005 15:32:53 GMT Received: from 82-41-57-20.cable.ubr08.edin.blueyonder.co.uk ([82.41.57.20] helo=snowdrop.home) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1EH1FD-0006Ep-U1 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 18 Sep 2005 15:38:20 +0000 Received: from localhost.home ([127.0.0.1] helo=snowdrop.home) by snowdrop.home with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EH1Fp-0001GK-Dc for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 18 Sep 2005 16:38:57 +0100 Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 16:38:55 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] first council meeting Message-ID: <20050918163855.7d164034@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <20050918130112.GA4041@superlupo.rechner> References: <1126897217.7832.49.camel@Memoria.anyarch.net> <200509171617.10869.vapier@gentoo.org> <20050918064637.GB18094@superlupo.rechner> <20050918133232.3e042d20@snowdrop.home> <20050918130112.GA4041@superlupo.rechner> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.13 (GTK+ 2.6.8; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Signature_Sun__18_Sep_2005_16_38_55_+0100_/PR0T8xXfOOIT.oQ"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 417b50d2-ab0c-453e-bfde-ee05c1fea913 X-Archives-Hash: 9136e76206f188116c3ac7a213828503 --Signature_Sun__18_Sep_2005_16_38_55_+0100_/PR0T8xXfOOIT.oQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 15:01:13 +0200 Wernfried Haas wrote: | On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 01:32:32PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > Uhm. That's current policy and has been current policy for several | > years. No GLEP needed. |=20 | If that's currenty policy, why does the handbook say something quite | different then? Does it need to be fixed? The deal with the handbook wording is... Originally, it was phrased very much in favour of ~arch, and suggesting that arch was the equivalent of Debian Stable. Many users who didn't know what they were doing would use ~arch and then complain when they encountered the occasional breakage. Certain developers complained, and the wording was changed. Here's the important part. What we tell the end user is not the same as what we tell the developer. Users should not use ~arch unless they're prepared to accept breakages. Developers should not put things into ~arch if they think there's a significant chance of it breaking things. That way, breakages will still sometimes occur in ~arch, and when they do users don't get to complain too much. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm --Signature_Sun__18_Sep_2005_16_38_55_+0100_/PR0T8xXfOOIT.oQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDLYoR96zL6DUtXhERAk9KAKC1JCIiI3pC4ZNynpoJwSg0AW7hYgCg4Drg 1tZhmdleETsA5JTmv260f9w= =Vxa4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature_Sun__18_Sep_2005_16_38_55_+0100_/PR0T8xXfOOIT.oQ-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list