From a89ff321a515ed38d17fc2248383b23b0a1c6b08 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michał Górny Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2020 17:48:31 +0100 Subject: Policy making, changing, appealing MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Signed-off-by: Michał Górny --- basics.rst | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) diff --git a/basics.rst b/basics.rst index c29b902..77233d7 100644 --- a/basics.rst +++ b/basics.rst @@ -64,9 +64,25 @@ Finally, in case of repeated unwillingness to follow policies, the QA team can issue disciplinary measures against the developer in question. +Policy making, changes and appeals +---------------------------------- +The majority of policies are written down and maintained by the `QA +team`_. Other Gentoo projects also create policies that affect their +specific areas of contributions (e.g. `systemd project`_ created +policies related to installing systemd unit files). + +Each policy listed in this document indicates the body maintaining it. +In order to change or abolish the policy, that team should be contacted. +If the project in question disagrees with the change, `QA team`_ can be +asked to override the policy. All QA decisions and policies can further +be appealed to the Council_. + + .. _repoman: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Repoman .. _pkgcheck: https://github.com/pkgcore/pkgcheck .. _Gentoo CI: https://qa-reports.gentoo.org/output/gentoo-ci/output.html .. _gentoo-automated-testing: https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-automated-testing/ .. _QA team: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Quality_Assurance .. _GLEP 48: https://www.gentoo.org/glep/glep-0048.html +.. _systemd project: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Systemd +.. _Council: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Council -- cgit v1.2.3-65-gdbad