From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28583138247 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2014 23:52:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 62F12E0B28; Wed, 22 Jan 2014 23:52:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from albert.telenet-ops.be (albert.telenet-ops.be [195.130.137.90]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 558C5E0B1A for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2014 23:52:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from TOMWIJ-GENTOO ([94.226.55.127]) by albert.telenet-ops.be with bizsmtp id HBs71n00M2khLEN06Bs8nV; Thu, 23 Jan 2014 00:52:08 +0100 Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 00:51:01 +0100 From: Tom Wijsman To: vapier@gentoo.org Cc: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] new profiles.desc header documenting profile/keyword policy Message-ID: <20140123005101.5871b6f9@TOMWIJ-GENTOO> In-Reply-To: <201401220158.05090.vapier@gentoo.org> References: <201401200223.24912.vapier@gentoo.org> <20140120172613.GA6121@laptop.home> <201401220158.05090.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.0 (GTK+ 2.24.22; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/zILA_2jRA9ic5eyvGITtg5v"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 4472d641-fd81-4f85-b392-4feb8d1ac67e X-Archives-Hash: aa08cd0e15af7807f992ef70b4a7e908 --Sig_/zILA_2jRA9ic5eyvGITtg5v Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 22 Jan 2014 01:58:04 -0500 Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Monday 20 January 2014 12:26:13 William Hubbs wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 02:23:24AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > this has all been fairly ad-hoc in the past, so formalize it in > > > the one place that impacts everyone -- profiles.desc. > >=20 > > If it is policy, shouldn't it go in the dev manual rather than in > > this file? >=20 > maybe. devmanual doesn't talk about this file at all atm. >=20 > or maybe i still have it in my head that devmanual.g.o is the ad-hoc=20 > documentation and not a policy manual -- policy lives in the Gentoo > Developer Handbook. Parts of the policies at the end of the Gentoo Developer Handbook have migrated to the development manual over the last week. Those whom maintain it regard it as policy (qa@g.o, devmanual@g.o) as far as I know, I have in the past also regarded it as such; to some extent documentation should be based on policy, thus as a result I think you can trust the documentation to be policy to a good extent. The real policy is where the decisions are made, but as that's spread across the council summaries and the mailing lists; that is what harder to find I guess, with the ebuild policy now merging into the development manual I think we really should see the development manual as policy. The policy at the back of the Gentoo Developer Handbook was incomplete, slightly outdated (CVS part, maybe some other unnoticed differences), rarely came up in discussions (people often refer to devmanual instead), ... thus I think its migration to the devmanual is progress. --=20 With kind regards, Tom Wijsman (TomWij) Gentoo Developer E-mail address : TomWij@gentoo.org GPG Public Key : 6D34E57D GPG Fingerprint : C165 AF18 AB4C 400B C3D2 ABF0 95B2 1FCD 6D34 E57D --Sig_/zILA_2jRA9ic5eyvGITtg5v Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJS4FllAAoJEJWyH81tNOV9ndkH/1amXhfFU+xbCx3GsvGCSl7d Y81WnzfyxWortv6RhC9JWi/SJWfgHIhERylSxygWXOuAgdH0vkGw3YPGm6RDofYk Cm78p/E3I+z5j/bRQV57AfRhixxT90l3VB5ug6AbCzozplU+Sa63dW/QPoaP9fBe P4L1Oe1PiQFy+/678o15mYiZhouUtzlvNNtNKQ2c7+zLsLyynCVsOQbVvXbXFiYj V6uqjWNSe3Yk0BLyI8ZUwJ59FUHoo1bxVZrGpw0KmoL0jAosN5A5DRe3z5i6jO9Y ANE6NjvGw+lDfzRHzldzk5lt/iflajFlEGua8Bc7U/ppu+vIXNkbA1A4HKl/JjU= =oTw2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/zILA_2jRA9ic5eyvGITtg5v--