On Monday 12 September 2005 10:13 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 22:03:31 -0400 Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > | > Could we get GLEP 31 (Character Sets for Portage Tree Items) added? > | > The only issue holding it back is that a few developers have stated > | > outright that they refuse to comply with it, and I don't see it as > | > fair to make other developers suffer nasty repoman errors because > | > of things a select few will end up breaking... > | > | it was approved once already, just retracted after that fact pending > | further developments in terms of application/developer support > | (editors not sucking so much for example) ... so does it really need > | to be approved again ? > > What I mean is... Is the council prepared to commit itself to helping > with enforcement of the GLEP? Adding repoman enforcement would be > trivial, but repoman is circumventable -- the GLEP is withdrawn because > several developers have said that they'll do just that anyway.
personally i think this is qa / devrel's area of enforcement ... once something has been approved by the managers/council, then it's pretty much policy in my mind ... it just needs to trickle down into the documentation and tools -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
