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| author |   Göktürk Yüksek <gokturk@binghamton.edu> | 2016-02-13 22:50:07 -0500 |
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| committer |   Göktürk Yüksek <gokturk@gentoo.org> | 2016-05-18 00:39:49 -0400 |
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general-concepts/herds-and-projects: update per GLEP 67 #572144 #549490
The changes are:
- Rename the title to "Projects and Herds" to put the emphasis
on projects
- Explain projects and subprojects in a new "Projects" section
- Add a subsection for starting new projects
- Add a subsection for joining/leaving a project
- Put a warning label at the beginning of the "Herds" section,
declare it obsolete, and preserve it for historical reasons
Gentoo-Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=572144
Gentoo-Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=549490
Signed-off-by: Göktürk Yüksek <gokturk@binghamton.edu>
| -rw-r--r-- | general-concepts/herds-and-projects/text.xml | 101 |
1 files changed, 100 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/general-concepts/herds-and-projects/text.xml b/general-concepts/herds-and-projects/text.xml index e030150..81b1885 100644 --- a/general-concepts/herds-and-projects/text.xml +++ b/general-concepts/herds-and-projects/text.xml @@ -1,10 +1,106 @@ <?xml version="1.0"?> <guide self="general-concepts/herds-and-projects/"> <chapter> -<title>Herds and Projects</title> +<title>Projects and Herds</title> <body> +<section> +<title>Projects</title> +<body> + +<p> +The management structure of Gentoo, called the "metastructure", is +defined in +<uri link="https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GLEP:39#Specification"> +GLEP 39</uri>. In Gentoo, a project is a group of developers working +towards a common goal in various different areas. For example, the +<uri link="https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Devmanual"> +Devmanual</uri> project focuses on maintaining this document. Many +others are responsible for maintaining packages. Projects spanning a +large area of topics can have multiple subprojects specializing in +particular fields within the domain of the parent project and thus +form a project hierarchy. +</p> + +<p> +A package maintained by a project needs to have the +project explicitly listed as a maintainer in its +<uri link="::ebuild-writing/misc-files/metadata">metadata.xml</uri>. +The full listing of all the projects can be found on +<uri link="https://api.gentoo.org/metastructure/projects.xml"> +api.gentoo.org</uri> or on the +<uri link="https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Gentoo">wiki</uri>. +</p> + +<subsection> +<title>Starting New Projects</title> +<body> + +<p> +According to the metastructure any developer may create a new +project. There are two procedures involved in starting a new project: + +<ol> + <li> + Create a new project page <uri + link="https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Gentoo_Wiki:Developer_Central/Project_pages"> + through the wiki</uri>. + </li> + <li> + Post a Request For Comments (RFC) email to the gentoo-dev + mailing list. + </li> +</ol> + +There is no approval required for the RFC and negative comments do not +block a developer from creating a project. Competing projects are +allowed to co-exist in Gentoo; existence of another project with +similar goals do not block another developer from starting a new +project with the same goals. +</p> + +</body> +</subsection> +<subsection> +<title>Joining and Leaving a Project</title> +<body> + +<p> +Members of a project are managed through the project's page on the +Gentoo Wiki. Each page has a "Project" template in its source which +lists the members of the project. Simply modifying the list is +sufficient for adding or removing a developer. Note that different +projects have different requirements and procedures for recruiting +developers, which may require prior arrangements to be made before +modifying the member list. +</p> + +<p> +Developers should remember to add themselves to the alias by editing +<c><path>/var/mail/alias/misc/<alias name></path></c> on +dev.gentoo.org. For example, the alias for the Devmanual project is +located at <c>/var/mail/alias/misc/devmanual</c>, which corresponds to +the project's email address <c>devmanual@gentoo.org</c>. +</p> + +</body> +</subsection> + +</body> +</section> + +<section> +<title>Herds</title> +<body> + +<warning> +Herds have been declared obsolete as per the Gentoo Council's <uri +link="https://projects.gentoo.org/council/meeting-logs/20160110-summary.txt"> +decision on January 10, 2016</uri>. The following section is preserved +for historical purposes. +</warning> + <p> A <e>herd</e> is a collection of packages with an associated set of maintainers. It can happen for example because of retirement that a herd has no developers @@ -27,6 +123,9 @@ as the <c>silo</c> bootloader). This is <e>not</e> always the case. </p> </body> +</section> + +</body> </chapter> </guide> |