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 56C33138010 for ; Sat, 29 Sep 2012 18:03:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D8701E068F for ; Sat, 29 Sep 2012 18:03:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-f181.google.com (mail-we0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29F5B21C06D for ; Sat, 29 Sep 2012 15:56:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by weyu54 with SMTP id u54so2123541wey.40 for ; Sat, 29 Sep 2012 08:56:24 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type; bh=52V9jgqM10AbBTIF5th1lqQLX/hC5kBsNJ41wtIv0gY=; b=vTw3Nhi5zATzXb9GszAMES4CxEtMEvLaEHvFCl41r+rtapDrjqca5iISRJkEHfC23u t7t+7fUQCeNfzWeVmFclDiodsRoeI2LCnfiknV2ui7jdxkIixhYsD5oHr7ZzyiqurABH cDXV1tQYY7lsUG2lvHUvy3lHdfKuCtlk8JIKb3+rMr7X3Y8kOlAaXgU2aQ+RQkxkMFOY LHgya7ldjxNqbcoR7hNAHEOwXOt5bmzXVXJAB+fUyy/KejEHG2/q+9wvgzzTGZmN7ws+ t5xh4ylPFxWPMdPfUWIvASDI1QKZulb0H13JpjiKDBaDG+9bT9Tq62psiT7JWuw13BbB xJ2A== Received: by 10.216.201.24 with SMTP id a24mr5308941weo.102.1348934184141; Sat, 29 Sep 2012 08:56:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (cpc13-broo7-2-0-cust130.14-2.cable.virginmedia.com. [82.9.16.131]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q4sm5717754wix.9.2012.09.29.08.56.22 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 29 Sep 2012 08:56:23 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2012 16:51:31 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items -- Council meeting 09-10-2012 Message-ID: <20120929165131.60d8a6af@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: <20579.61409.451891.521881@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> References: <20120925092414.GL37574@gentoo.org> <20577.32914.7474.976710@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <20579.61409.451891.521881@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.1 (GTK+ 2.24.11; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Project discussion list X-BeenThere: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/O5I8hu/1io0gY+mnjISJ7Aj"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 64e2ede9-a233-4f5f-b34b-e98e421a2d87 X-Archives-Hash: 0a0c8415a0c9b56728bcfdeba3b1c7f8 --Sig_/O5I8hu/1io0gY+mnjISJ7Aj Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 27 Sep 2012 08:19:13 +0200 Ulrich Mueller wrote: > Actually, there's also: > d) Require a) for Package managers and b) by tree policy > (Postel's Law, brought up by mgorny). Practically, this would > mean that repoman would reject "foo-1" as package name, but the > rest of Portage would accept it. Postel's Law is what lead to the current state of HTML and JavaScript, where everything has to be tested carefully on dozens of different browser versions and littered with workarounds. Accepting lax input just leads to lax input being provided... --=20 Ciaran McCreesh --Sig_/O5I8hu/1io0gY+mnjISJ7Aj Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlBnGQYACgkQ96zL6DUtXhGyOgCfYpqgFuRC2wApTFNmYZFyAbTj YX8An0VRXfPqNOkDmIvIR7hF33zUBfHV =jUbc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/O5I8hu/1io0gY+mnjISJ7Aj--