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.

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