Re: [gentoo-project] pre-GLEP: Gentoo Developer status

[Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>]

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>>>>> On Fri, 13 Apr 2018, Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike) wrote:

> Taking into account that the letter and not the spirit of GLEP 39 is
> usually thrown around as a weapon ("INFORMATIVE", HAH!). I strongly
> disrecommend having more "informative" policies.

Sorry, but I don't understand what you are talking about. GLEP types
are defined in GLEP 1 [1]:

,----
| A Standards Track GLEP describes a new feature or implementation
| for Gentoo Linux. An Informational GLEP provides general guidelines
| or information to the Gentoo Linux community, but does not propose
| a new feature.
`----

Michał's GLEP doesn't describe any new feature, but aims to document
current practice. Therefore it cannot be of type "Standards Track".

> [...]

> As a closing note, I'm really getting tired of all this "Either you
> write ebuilds or you are a piece of shit" philosophy that is running
> on the ambient nowadays. If such people want a developer centric
> source based distro, who gives shit about the non developers I
> strongly recommend trying Exherbo instead.

This is not helpful.

Ulrich

[1] https://www.gentoo.org/glep/glep-0001.html#kinds-of-gleps

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