Michael Catanzaro <mcatanz...@gnome.org> wrote: ... > > We've considered this question a bit more on the board side, and think > > we can adjust the policy enough to allow some flexibility around the > > GNOME Gitlab group. I think we would like to see some alignment > > between the modulesets and the group, but it doesn't have to be > > absolute and we could have a lazy retirement policy - so a modules > > that are removed from the modulesets can stick around in the Gitlab > > group for a good period of time. Does that sound like it could work? > > I'm not sure. We have ~400 repositories under GNOME/ but only ~50 > elements under core. So over 85% of our modules in GNOME/ are not in > core. We could reduce that percentage by including elements from > core-deps and sdk that are hosted under GNOME/, but there's still going > to be very wide divergence. For there to be any sort of alignment, we'd > need to remove the vast majority of software currently under GNOME/.
Yes, that's been taken into account. We're planning to set up a new group where a lot of those modules will be able to live. At this point it's probably best for us to share the plan in more detail and get more feedback... > The advantages of doing this would be unclear. The "advantage" is following the legal recommendation we've had, regarding how we define our software. Thanks again! Allan _______________________________________________ release-team@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team Release-team lurker? Do NOT participate in discussions.
