On 2025-03-28, Michał Górny wrote: > Hello, > > I've looked at our repositories.xml and the quality/status attributes > don't seem to be used very meaningfully. > > That is, by quality: > > core: gentoo [official] > stable: opentransactions (?) [official (?!)] > testing: hyprland-overlay, moexiami [both unofficial] > experimental: everything else > graveyard: unused
No idea why it's named quality. "stable", "testing" and "experimental" are only used in profiles. Packages also can have stable and testing arch keywords. Looks like reused terminology without any clear and unambiguous meaning of each term. > By status: > > official: ago, alexxy, anarchy, andrey_utkin, cj-overlay, dilfridge, > emacs, EmilienMottet, fordfrog, gentoo, gnome, gnustep, graaff, guru, > haskell, java, jmbsvicetto, kde, libressl, maekke, masterlay, mschiff, > multilib-portage, musl, mysql, opentransactions, pentoo, pinkbyte, > qemu-init, qt, R_Overlay, rich0, riscv, rnp, ruby, science, sping, > swegener, tex-overlay, toolchain, ukui, ulm, vGist, voyageur, x11 > > unofficial: everything else This makes sense: official repositories are maintained or managed by Gentoo developers, unofficial repositories are maintained by non-developers. Well, should make sense, because "libressl" is also somehow official? It used to be maintained by Gentoo, and likely this attribute just wasn't updated after Gentoo had discontinued support for LibreSSL. > Which brings the significant question: are these attributes in any way > meaningful? Is there a point in keeping them at all? Should we set > some ground rules and make them used consistently? Even if they are meaningful, they are inconsistent and fall out of sync. I wouldn't miss them :/ > Of them all, only "core" makes sense right now. "stable" and "testing" > are used only by random user overlays, with no apparent features. > Similarly, "official" is used by a mix of developer and ex-developer > repositories, developer and user project repositories, and a bunch of > user repositories with no clearly distinct features.
