On 07/09/2014 02:58 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Michael Palimaka <kensing...@gentoo.org> > wrote: >> On 07/09/2014 01:22 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: >>> And some personal thoughts about the initial proposal... >>> I don't care about the suggestion 3. in mgorny's proposal at all, but 1. >>> and 2. should definately >>> stay as is. >> What authority does the game team have over anything? Did it get special >> blessing from the Council? Isn't it just another regular project as per >> GLEP 39? >> > > While I tend to agree with the sentiment, and it may not be productive > to try to turn this into a bunch of rules, it is beneficial to have > guidelines/etc managed by projects in general, and to have maintainers > generally try to follow them. Of course. I'm not at all suggesting flouting guidelines for the sake of it.
In general the guidelines of multilib/python/Gnome/KDE/whatever are followed because of mutual respect between the projects and maintainers. I follow the guidelines of the python project because I respect their knowledge and experience in the matter. Conversely, the python project respects my role as a maintainer and doesn't needlessly interfere. This is not true of the games team, which attempts to dominate game packages for no discernable reason. If it behaved more like the other projects issuing guidelines we wouldn't he having this discussion. "My way or the highway" is not how to achieve a better Gentoo.
