Hi Kent, On Tue, Nov 05, 2019 at 10:50:09AM +1300, Kent Fredric wrote: > On Mon, 4 Nov 2019 10:53:44 -0500 > Michael Orlitzky <m...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > To avoid these sorts of questions in the future, it might be worth the > > time it would take to vote on each of these policies formally, document > > them on the wiki, and then move the related checks to ::gentoo/metadata > > where other package managers can benefit from them (and where they can't > > be unilaterally nuked). Having a comprehensive list of policies will > > also help developers who want to Do The Right Thing and who read up on > > these things proactively. > > I believe the place for these is in the dev-manual[1] > > If not the dev-manual, then if there is some other source of authority > where they end up, there should be some mechanism to relay them to the > dev-manual. > > Its hard to expect people to follow a policy that is mostly codified in > tools and cultural wisdom.
You are correct. When I was on the team, the idea was that the devmanual was the cannonical source for all qa policies. I'm not on the team now but I would strongly support this. William > > 1: > https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/497c28fb2dab0a480c302ba966481f4f
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