On 7/5/06, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> We don't have i18n requirements for extras software, either. Perhaps we should? I thought we at least required that they join us in the 21st century and operate correctly with UTF-8. Do we have _no_ written guidelines on the quality of the software we accept to be packaged?
Well first, what do you mean by code quality? That can mean anything from "Uses XZY blessed coding style", "Uses AGH technique so that formal methods can be used to confirm correctness of each routine", to "Dude, it compiled with ' -Wall -Wextra -pedantic-errors' without any crashes." Other questions that seem to come out of this are: What coding knowledge must a maintainer have? What hardware/software/network access must a maintainer have? -- Stephen J Smoogen. CSIRT/Linux System Administrator
