[gentoo-dev] RFC: Drop the "domo" helper in EAPI 9

2025-03-28 Thread Ulrich Müller
There was a discussion in #gentoo-pms if we should drop the "domo" install function in EAPI 9: - It is not much used, only 6 packages (13 ebuilds) in the Gentoo repository. - Could you explain (e.g. to a new developer) what the function does, without looking it up in the spec? :) - The funct

[gentoo-dev] [PATCH 2/2] repositories: Lower "quality" of non-::gentoo repos to experimental

2025-03-28 Thread Michał Górny
Set the "quality" of all repositories but ::gentoo to "experimental". The quality tag has not been used consistently in the past, and at this point it is entirely meaningless. Signed-off-by: Michał Górny --- files/overlays/repositories.xml | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions

[gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/2] repostiories: Lower non-Gentoo projects to unofficial

2025-03-28 Thread Michał Górny
Lower the status of a bunch of repositories to unofficial status. The remaining "official" repositories are: a. Gentoo developer overlays (of active developers) b. project repositories of active Gentoo projects Signed-off-by: Michał Górny --- files/overlays/repositories.xml | 26 +-

Re: [gentoo-dev] The meaning of attributes in repositories.xml?

2025-03-28 Thread Michał Górny
On Fri, 2025-03-28 at 17:51 +0100, Ulrich Müller wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, 28 Mar 2025, Michał Górny wrote: > > > > 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 bei

Re: [gentoo-dev] The meaning of attributes in repositories.xml?

2025-03-28 Thread Michał Górny
On Fri, 2025-03-28 at 12:59 +0100, Ulrich Müller wrote: > > > > > > 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] > > stabl

[gentoo-dev] Re: The meaning of attributes in repositories.xml?

2025-03-28 Thread Duncan
Michał Górny posted on Fri, 28 Mar 2025 14:04:32 +0100 as excerpted: > On Fri, 2025-03-28 at 08:23 +, Duncan wrote: >> Status: >> >> * "Official" status meant managed by an official Gentoo project or >> developer (who had gone thru the usual vetting process), […] >> >> * "Unofficial" status

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: The meaning of attributes in repositories.xml?

2025-03-28 Thread Michał Górny
On Fri, 2025-03-28 at 08:23 +, Duncan wrote: > Status: > > * "Official" status meant managed by an official Gentoo project or > developer (who had gone thru the usual vetting process), […] > > * "Unofficial" status had rather less security-trust and was intended for > "ordinary users". […]

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: The meaning of attributes in repositories.xml?

2025-03-28 Thread Ionen Wolkens
On Fri, Mar 28, 2025 at 01:15:44PM +0500, Anna Vyalkova wrote: > 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] >

Re: [gentoo-dev] The uncertain future of repository mirrors

2025-03-28 Thread Florian Schmaus
On 21/03/2025 14.32, Michał Górny wrote: Hello, everyone. TL;DR: I'm thinking of shutting down all gentoo-mirror repositories, except for gentoo and guru. Somewhat related: we may want to consider slightly raising the bar for adding new (user) overlays. When mangling the overlay addition requ

[gentoo-dev] Re: The meaning of attributes in repositories.xml?

2025-03-28 Thread Duncan
Michał Górny posted on Fri, 28 Mar 2025 05:27:40 +0100 as excerpted: > 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 (?!)]

[gentoo-dev] Re: The meaning of attributes in repositories.xml?

2025-03-28 Thread Anna Vyalkova
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, moexia

[gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs: app-text/txt2tags

2025-03-28 Thread Viorel Munteanu
Hello, I no longer use it: app-text/txt2tags No open bugs, but upstream is inactive for 2 years.  It uses legacy pre-PEP517 setuptools with some warnings. Thank you, Viorel. OpenPGP_0x67992BD27934AEA4.asc Description: OpenPGP public key OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digi