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<h1>Basic information<a class="headerlink" href="#basic-information" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<section id="goals-of-policy-making">
<h2>Goals of policy making<a class="headerlink" href="#goals-of-policy-making" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>The Gentoo policies focus on three aims:</p>
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<li><p><em>Portability</em>. By following the policies, it should be possible
to package software so that it works on different system setups.
This includes various supported architectures, basic system
components, service managers, package managers, combinations
of compiler and linker flags, etc.</p></li>
<li><p><em>Maintainability</em>. The policies aim to provide consistent coding
practices that make it easy for a different person to co-maintain
the package or take over after previous maintainer. This also
reduces the risk of mistakes experienced by the end users.</p></li>
<li><p><em>End-user experience</em>. The policies try to help developers
in providing a consistent end-user experience. The same concepts
applied across different packages make it easier for user to achieve
his goals and reduce the likeliness of surprising behavior.</p></li>
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<section id="policy-compliance-checking">
<h2>Policy compliance checking<a class="headerlink" href="#policy-compliance-checking" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>Currently, there are two kinds of tools involved in detecting policy
violations:</p>
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<li><p>Linting-class tools, including <a class="reference external" href="https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Repoman">repoman</a> and <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/pkgcore/pkgcheck">pkgcheck</a>. Those tools
analyze ebuilds and other files in the package repository for known
policy violations. They are limited to checking for problems that
can be detected without running the phase functions.</p></li>
<li><p>Build- and install-time QA checks, implemented in package managers.
Those trigger while the ebuilds are executing. They are limited
to testing the currently running code path.</p></li>
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<p>Developers are expected to use both kinds of tools before pushing their
commits. They should both lint the changed ebuilds using <a class="reference external" href="https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Repoman">repoman</a>
or <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/pkgcore/pkgcheck">pkgcheck</a>, and test whether their packages build and install
correctly.</p>
<p>Additionally, Gentoo is running <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/pkgcore/pkgcheck">pkgcheck</a> periodically as <a class="reference external" href="https://qa-reports.gentoo.org/output/gentoo-ci/output.html">Gentoo CI</a>.
All non-trivial violations are reported to the <a class="reference external" href="https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-automated-testing/">gentoo-automated-testing</a>
mailing list and to the developers making the relevant commits. This
supplements the direct use of linting tools by developers with reliable
tree-wide scans.</p>
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<section id="policy-enforcement">
<h2>Policy enforcement<a class="headerlink" href="#policy-enforcement" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>The Gentoo <a class="reference external" href="https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Quality_Assurance">QA team</a> is tasked with enforcement of the tree policies.
Its role is governed by <a class="reference external" href="https://www.gentoo.org/glep/glep-0048.html">GLEP 48</a>. It focuses on documenting
the policies, resolving doubts regarding them and educating
the developers.</p>
<p>The QA team members can also take direct action in resolving minor
quality problems (i.e. when fixing directly involves far less effort
than if the developer was requested to fix it), or when developer
refuses to resolve policy violations.</p>
<p>Finally, in case of repeated unwillingness to follow policies, the QA
team can issue disciplinary measures against the developer in question.</p>
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<section id="policy-making-changes-and-appeals">
<h2>Policy making, changes and appeals<a class="headerlink" href="#policy-making-changes-and-appeals" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>The majority of policies are written down and maintained by the <a class="reference external" href="https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Quality_Assurance">QA
team</a>. Other Gentoo projects also create policies that affect their
specific areas of contributions (e.g. <a class="reference external" href="https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Systemd">systemd project</a> created
policies related to installing systemd unit files).</p>
<p>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, <a class="reference external" href="https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Quality_Assurance">QA team</a> can be
asked to override the policy. All QA decisions and policies can further
be appealed to the <a class="reference external" href="https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Council">Council</a>.</p>
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