From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [78.47.116.26] (helo=drlauer-research.com) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KuQK1-0002jn-GD for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:31:45 +0100 Received: from andromeda.vanille.de (e180160026.adsl.alicedsl.de [85.180.160.26]) by drlauer-research.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1594D584BB8 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:44:49 +0100 (CET) From: "Michael 'Mickey' Lauer" Organization: Vanille-Media To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:30:55 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <4905A264.9050509@klever.net> In-Reply-To: <4905A264.9050509@klever.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <200810271230.56134.mickey@vanille-media.de> Subject: Policies vs. Guidelines vs. Requirements (was: Reverting recent openmoko commit) X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 11:31:45 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Guys, to me these "policies" were always more guidelines than strict requirements. We are not a beaurocratic institute here or a closed company (where you can feel free to impose them if you want), but rather a bunch people working together on a somewhat common goal. As such it's _completely unacceptable_ to revert a whole lot of valuable work just because some of the guidelines were not enforced 100%. Completely unacceptable. Also unacceptable is a one-man-show revertion without a consensus, but that's something the core team has to discuss. Nearbye, _if_ the core team can find a majority to make these kind of policies strict requirements, then the ones in favour of this solution should come up with git commit hooks, so that the commits violating the policy can not be commited in the first place. In the meantime I'd be very happy if Holger would reapply his changes. -- :M: