On 07/08/2014 07:45 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > Dear Community, > > First of all, please do not take this personally. I don't want to > attack any member of the games team or the team in general. I respect > their experience and long-term contribution to Gentoo. However, > I strongly disagree with the policy games team has established and I > believe that their actions do not serve the best interest of Gentoo. > > I am therefore going to propose this request to the next Council. Since > this will likely require a fair amount of prior discussion, I would > like to start it already, hopefully reaching at least some point before > the appropriate Council meeting. > > > I would like to ask the Council to abolish the following policies that > have been established by the games team: > > 1. that the games team has authority over the actual maintainers > on every game ebuild, > > 2. that every ebuild has to inherit games.eclass as the last eclass > inherited [1], even if it actually increases the ebuild size rather > than helping, > > 3. that games must adhere to games team-specific install locations > and ownership rules, shortly listed in [2].
Why is Council intervention needed to abolish these policies? They're not binding. As far as I know, the games team has no special status so like any other project they can recommend whatever they want - nobody is obliged to listen (I certainly don't).
