On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Doug Goldstein wrote: >> >> Doug Goldstein wrote: >>> >>> Brian Harring wrote: >>>> >>>> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 03:06:17AM +0000, Mike Frysinger wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> This is your one-day friendly reminder ! The monthly Gentoo Council >>>>> meeting is tomorrow in #gentoo-council on irc.freenode.net. See the >>>>> channel topic for the exact time (but it's probably 2000 UTC). >>>>> >>>>> If you're supposed to show up, please show up. If you're not supposed >>>>> to show up, then show up anyways and watch your Council monkeys dance >>>>> for you. >>>>> >>>>> For more info on the Gentoo Council, feel free to browse our homepage: >>>>> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/ >>>>> >>>> >>>> Reiterating the early request, I'd like the council to please discuss >>>> the current status of PMS, if the running of it satisfys the councils >>>> requirements of a *neutral* standard, if the proposed spec actually meets >>>> said standards, and if said spec is actually going to be approved sometimes >>>> this side of '09. >>>> >>>> Effectively, we've watched it essentially progress into a standard that >>>> effectively only the paludis folk are adherent to (if in doubt, ask portage >>>> folk, my sending this mail is indicative of the pkgcore standpoint)- it's >>>> about time the council comment upon it in light of the general view. >>>> >>>> Yes, ciaran shall comment. My request still stands. >>>> Thanks, >>>> ~harring >>>> >>> >>> I'd honestly like to see an official PMS project page i.e. >>> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/pms/ >>> >>> On this page it'd be nice if there was an official link to the current >>> PMS instead of having to rely on grabbing it from random locations i.e. >>> d.g.o/~coldwind/ or d.g.o/~spb/ >> >> Allow me to clarify a bit more. I'd like to see a collaborative website >> that developers for all actively maintained package managers can contribute >> to and update providing details about compatibility and implementation of >> the PMS and future additions or revisions of the PMS that will be put forth >> before the Gentoo Council. > > I agree with Cardoe, the specification should be made as useful as possible > to the package maintainers, as accessible as possible by every interested > party and possibly have a regression/conformance test built in (such a small > tree with dummy ebuilds and eclasses) to allow automated validation. > Stronger and well defined versioning should help as well.
I believe the biggest problem with this list is you have a long list of wants but seem to not want to do any of the work yourself. For the folks making the requests; are you working on doing any of them yourself? Otherwise your suggestions are mere recommendations at best. -Alec > > lu > > -- > > Luca Barbato > Gentoo Council Member > Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC > http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero > > -- > gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
