From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RLLZN-0006Zz-GO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 01 Nov 2011 21:08:29 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 887D721C1CC; Tue, 1 Nov 2011 21:08:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from petteriraty.eu (petteriraty.eu [188.40.80.83]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 350F421C1CA for ; Tue, 1 Nov 2011 21:08:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [85.77.167.227] (YYYMMMDXXVI.gprs.sl-laajakaista.fi [85.77.167.227]) by petteriraty.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id EE82633DEF for ; Tue, 1 Nov 2011 21:08:04 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4EB05FAC.7030101@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2011 23:07:56 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?UGV0dGVyaSBSw6R0eQ==?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fi; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090916 Thunderbird/2.0.0.23 Mnenhy/0.7.6.666 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 To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items -- Council meeting 2011-11-08 References: <20111026163025.GA843@gentoo.org> <4EAE6FD8.5030203@gentoo.org> <20142.30765.50483.870591@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> In-Reply-To: <20142.30765.50483.870591@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4a1pre OpenPGP: id=B8E4ECF0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigD7DB004296A6B0CD531A4E3F" X-Archives-Salt: 3990544a-0541-47c6-b6bd-88622b3564d0 X-Archives-Hash: 943f53a3fb5544cadf00fa55db001a12 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigD7DB004296A6B0CD531A4E3F Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 31.10.2011 12:27, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >>>>>> On Mon, 31 Oct 2011, Petteri R=C3=A4ty wrote: >=20 >> Let's vote on if you are allowed to remove functions from eclasses (or= >> break the API in general): >=20 >> http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_f797a983b0d11677a1f781e48ab4= e97d.xml >=20 >> Last time this came up a decision wasn't reached: >> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20100726-summary.tx= t >=20 >> The decision should then be documented here: >> http://devmanual.gentoo.org/eclass-writing/index.html >=20 > Why do we need a decision here? Isn't it simply a special case of the > "adding and updating eclasses" policy? >=20 Because when I joined I was taught to never the API of an eclass. Now looking at gentoo-dev people want to be doing something else. From the log provided you can see that the council has explicitly ruled nothing on the issue yet. I think it would be better if we had something clear in devmanual. Regards, Petteri --------------enigD7DB004296A6B0CD531A4E3F Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJOsF+vAAoJEPeUsk245Ozw/osP/3oqnXnay6CVJUjFkzzOTRvH riXdsJ97CmNPEhE1hjTi0eiTou+MKl0XIQnIbHggglwa7/ZkwRLG2ynTMw6V9wDT scmHR3uPUnBypIlHjdWrhMgaj3RtmFfBlBjfbUKIZ+a24cEo1mh40bS6OTl6Kwa7 Gc1B+fJSJzCanlhKCz3e7xupNIYodCVkcf4kVgBgB1fGkYxcbmT8Er+deOMfYTvd VTWVkHiafc9zN41hliXdmAKLz2UCz5gHiOzCy5LsNmixN2DcucMIs8sjfH/qahuR qeF85E9Dfqko+n6eknKjorR9CZmcW+oiOrHpRZu3Q27kK2x/29XE+oBcEdq5lbPh TdlF7VkJsjSArUj00tnFMVhdWUWD/56t6titkM2K+uGXMUmFxJgODtPZYSWrlAvn b+KH+lO1z66Zu8KeJIbnzqPmKEIWo+H4qjqWnOaAVqklYoeaEUzPJap1ih1hsJLI /dCYIkegILRgcYCVMNBH30SceJKec/D2R83T013A+4SDTZQvNUwQt+NDe2ogaxPq cO0lyZLs0+SShGuPkojRGfWo4V2/jPYerVaeAa8S0EllPpHf5M1P62eLFkciIzOS pVe/GyquevSGFLAyurVR5n78i0yO3kmyiAUNAitWFqfjkgeGQuWP0PkEMK6H02A0 ea81nULVEJD0yCRyT1iA =Uz8d -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigD7DB004296A6B0CD531A4E3F--