Request for a decision acknowledged. Fwding on mail to the rest of the council to ensure they see it.
On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 17:38 -0400, Mark Loeser wrote: > As the latest long thread has shown, there seems to be a split (it is hard to > tell exactly) on whether or not alternative package managers, that support > Gentoo ebuilds to some degree, should be added to the tree and supported. > Supported in this case means having their own profiles which may or may not > work with Portage. There are currently a few different Portage rewrites, or > alternatives, whatever you want to call them, and all of them have their own > unique features being added to them which make them incompatible with Portage. > Some don't even emulate Portage's "broken" behaviour which could also cause > QA problems for us if we add the package to the tree. If a package is in the > tree, it is implicitly stating that we are going to offer some level of > support for that application, and it increases workload for everyone that > may have an ebuild that works with one package manager and not another. > > Therefore, I am requesting at the next Council meeting that they discuss > and decide on how we want to handle problems like this in general. This > is not going to be the last time that someone wants to add their rewrite/ > alternative of Portage to the tree. It should be decided if it is really > in the best interests of Gentoo, its users, and developers to be adding > these new managers to our own tree, instead of having them host their > altered work on their own infrastructure. > > As the QA lead, I am requesting that until the Council convenes and decides > on how we should proceed, that we not add anything else to the tree > for the sole reason of supporting another package manager's features. > This includes profiles or any other packages. This will reduce > headaches for all of us, and hopefully cut down on needless arguments > that get us no where. > > Thanks, > -- Ned Ludd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo Linux -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
