>>>>> On Fri, 28 Mar 2025, Michał Górny wrote: > 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 > 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 > 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? > 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. I've recently looked at these too, in the context of EAPI deprecation (GLEP 83). Basically, which repositories should we consider before dropping support for an old EAPI from package managers? For example, one could consider all "official" repositories. But then I looked at some of them and found quite a few that are essentially unmaintained (e.g. because the developer retired). Also, the "quality" attribute didn't make sense to me at all. One idea could be to merge these into a single status attribute, and maybe salvage the "core" value. That is: - core: Only the Gentoo repository (for the time being) - official: Repositories maintained by a project or a developer (maybe opt-in or opt-out, i.e. allow devs to have unofficial repositories?) - unofficial: everything else
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature
