Re: [gentoo-project] Council meeting 2021-07-11 - call for agenda items

[Aaron Bauman <bman@gentoo.org>]

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On Mon, Jul 05, 2021 at 12:17:35PM +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> >>>>> On Mon, 05 Jul 2021, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> 

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> In the past, the council had also banned EAPIs. However, that didn't
> make much of a practical difference because an EAPI cannot be added
> to eapis-banned in layout.conf unless all ebuilds are gone. Maybe we
> should have a rule like the following instead:
> "A deprecated EAPI is considered banned when the Gentoo repository
> no longer contains any ebuilds using it."

Having the council vote to officially ban an EAPI does have
practicality. The work done by those porting ebuilds, removing old
packages, etc is hindered when other begin committing ebuilds deprecated
but not banned.

I would ask that the council continue the official motions and votes to
ban EAPI's prior to being "enforced" by tooling. This assists those doing
the work and the QA team to stop people from committing.

While it is an administrative control it does help, but a technical
solution would be preferred long term.

-Aaron


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