I want to open this discussion in hopes we understand the current policy on pushing changes to python eclasses in Gentoo. From my side, I know some "informal" rules, which are: 1. Discuss it with project members in IRC. We are mostly active up there, so quite logical. 2. Open a PR with the changes, mention the eclass name in the PR title, and ping @python project for review. Post in IRC. Wait for review. 3. (formal) Post patches to ML - same for all eclass changes - wait for comments. 4. Accumulate them until an undefined point, and then push - to mitigate cache metadata regen (FYI, the only mention of this in official documentation is the short explanation at [1]) For me, it mostly worked, since I myself don't like to perform eclass changes, so I mostly wrote ideas and requests, mgorny implemented them and handled it for me. I never had anything urgent so easy life. Now, I want us to see some issues with this workflow, more for people who are fine with authoring eclass changes, like Sam and Eli. - How much time to wait for GitHub review. Does missing review makes it close to an ACK (I limit this question to core @python members). - How much time to accumulate? We could wait until something urgent comes, but this is too long and depressing as an author. I also don't think we should just wait for a single day (unless urgent). I myself don't know the full cost of metadata regen - from my view it is mostly mitigated by `git pull --depth=1` which most users do. I also think that rsync emerge sync is quite rare, and git is more common (no proof). So please let's have discussion on this cost. I'm requesting the participant I CCed to raise more questions on the policy of python eclass changes, and answer as they can, and raise a discussion if needed. I don't want the progress stopping, or devs feeling hurt, or doing stupid things that hurt Gentoo users. Therefore understanding the situation and decisions will leave all happy I hope. I also really request the reader to come with good faith, and to attempt to ignore any feeling of being attacked/misjudged - we all come from different parts of the world, and our words sometimes change meaning when read by the other. Assume we all are friends :) [1] https://devmanual.gentoo.org/eclass-writing/index.html#adding-and-updating-eclasses
