Re: [gentoo-dev] Do (old-ish) Portage QA checks comprise policy?

[William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>]

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Hi Kent,

On Tue, Nov 05, 2019 at 10:50:09AM +1300, Kent Fredric wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Nov 2019 10:53:44 -0500
> Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
> > To avoid these sorts of questions in the future, it might be worth the 
> > time it would take to vote on each of these policies formally, document 
> > them on the wiki, and then move the related checks to ::gentoo/metadata 
> > where other package managers can benefit from them (and where they can't 
> > be unilaterally nuked). Having a comprehensive list of policies will 
> > also help developers who want to Do The Right Thing and who read up on 
> > these things proactively.
> 
> I believe the place for these is in the dev-manual[1]
> 
> If not the dev-manual, then if there is some other source of authority
> where they end up, there should be some mechanism to relay them to the
> dev-manual.
> 
> Its hard to expect people to follow a policy that is mostly codified in
> tools and cultural wisdom.

You are correct. When I was on the team, the idea was that the devmanual
was the cannonical source for all qa policies.

I'm not on the team now but I would strongly support this.

William

> 
> 1: https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/497c28fb2dab0a480c302ba966481f4f



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