Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2014-04-08

["Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@gentoo.org>]

On 03/29/2014 09:26 AM, hasufell wrote:
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> Anthony G. Basile:
>> On 03/27/2014 09:40 AM, Anthony G. Basile wrote:
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> The council will be meeing on April 8, 2014 at 1900 UTC.  Please
>>> bring forward any agenda items you would like discussed.
>>>
>>> --Tony
>>>
>> Okay I'd like to add an agenda item.  A policy inspired by bug
>> #506034.
>>
>> Motion: "Significant changes to virtuals are to be discussed (via
>> mailing list or bugzilla) with all the maintainers and/or herds
>> which maintain packages those virtuals depend on."
>>
>> Discussion: "Like eclasses, changes to virtuals can affect all the
>> packages which depend on them.  Changing existing virtuals,
>> removing virtuals or adding new ones affect the packages they
>> depend on.  When such a change is proposed, all maintainers
>> affected need to be included in the discussion."
>>
> Sounds like any other reverse-dep. If people don't discuss non-trivial
> changes (to whatever part of gentoo), then that needs to be fixed, not
> policies introduced for every single situation that arises.

True, I did think of that, but we do have a policy for eclasses. With 
deeper uses of virtuals, it does not hurt to make the reverse-dep issue 
explicit.

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Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D.
Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened]
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