Re: [arch-dev-public] Proposal: Build a ruleset for new packages and package quality

2019-12-12 Thread Allan McRae via arch-dev-public
On 12/12/19 10:21 pm, Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public wrote: > 3. revive the discussion around better PKGBUILD quality (see also Eli's > thread about PKGBUILD quality on arch-tu: > https://lists.archlinux.org/private/arch-tu/2019-November/83.html) Any chance that can be posted

Re: [arch-dev-public] Proposal: Build a ruleset for new packages and package quality

2019-12-12 Thread Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public
[2019-12-12 13:21:42 +0100] Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public: > 1. find a consensus on rules which packages we allow in our repositories > and which don't. There's no need for hard rules except "don't put stuff in the repos that will cause legal problems". We certainly strive to ship

Re: [arch-dev-public] Proposal: Build a ruleset for new packages and package quality

2019-12-12 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-dev-public
On 12/12/19 7:21 AM, Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public wrote: > 5. What do we do with the existing beta and alpha packages? Are they > granted asylum? Or do we remove them, to be consistent? > > extra libmspack 1:0.10.1alpha-2 > extra qt5-webkit 5.212.0alpha3-6 qt5-webkit is a

Re: [arch-dev-public] Proposal: Build a ruleset for new packages and package quality

2019-12-12 Thread Filipe Laíns via arch-dev-public
On Thu, 2019-12-12 at 13:21 +0100, Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public wrote: > Hello everybody, > > Due to a longer discussion around alpha and beta packages in our > repositories in IRC yesterday, I would like to start a hopefully more > constructive discussion around this topic on the ML.

Re: [arch-dev-public] Proposal: Build a ruleset for new packages and package quality

2019-12-12 Thread Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public
On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 01:40:19PM +0100, Public mailing list for Arch Linux development wrote: > On 12/12/19 1:21 PM, Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public wrote: > > 8.2 I can't find any list about punishments for violations of these > > rules. > > > > Best regards, > > Chris > > > > Do

Re: [arch-dev-public] Proposal: Build a ruleset for new packages and package quality

2019-12-12 Thread Robin Broda via arch-dev-public
On 12/12/19 1:21 PM, Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public wrote: > 8.2 I can't find any list about punishments for violations of these > rules. > > Best regards, > Chris > Do we have such lists of punishment in any of our other guidelines? I think we generally assume that other team

[arch-dev-public] Proposal: Build a ruleset for new packages and package quality

2019-12-12 Thread Christian Rebischke via arch-dev-public
Hello everybody, Due to a longer discussion around alpha and beta packages in our repositories in IRC yesterday, I would like to start a hopefully more constructive discussion around this topic on the ML. Short summary for everybody what happened: I wanted to get caddy2.0.0-beta into