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 C29F41387FD for ; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 13:28:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4B101E0A8C; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 13:28:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AAEB5E09F3 for ; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 13:28:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.3.7] (cpe-74-77-145-97.buffalo.res.rr.com [74.77.145.97]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: blueness) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BCB5D33EECB for ; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 13:28:36 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <5336CAAD.8050008@gentoo.org> Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 09:29:17 -0400 From: "Anthony G. Basile" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 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 2014-04-08 References: <53342A5F.70903@gentoo.org> <5336C19C.7020608@opensource.dyc.edu> <5336CA1F.1060008@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <5336CA1F.1060008@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 82783c05-59be-4feb-9b4d-cd0b0d203a7f X-Archives-Hash: 9d06fe1c610337e3c726bd57990101ef On 03/29/2014 09:26 AM, hasufell wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > 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. -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] E-Mail : blueness@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 1FED FAD9 D82C 52A5 3BAB DC79 9384 FA6E F52D 4BBA GnuPG ID : F52D4BBA