Re: Defining GNOME software (finally)

[Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro gnome org>]

Using issue tracking to handle some decisions (especially freeze 
breaks) makes sense to me.

On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 1:20 pm, Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me> 
wrote:
> Thanks for that. Do you care about external dependencies - meaning we
> add things to our toolchain  - are they scrutinized? For instance,
> picking up some library that has one person supporting it might raise
> eyebrows. Curious if those are things the board would be interested in
> knowing or a power that the release team should wield or does in fact
> wield. (I'm not sure how on-topic this part is so if you want to
> answer maybe that is worth a separate thread)

So new deps are usually handled on a case-by-case basis. Generally they 
go into core-deps whenever required, though. We usually are not picky 
about what we put there. Most of our core modules are, realistically, 
maintained by just one-person, so I wouldn't be surprised if several of 
our core-deps also have bus factor of 1.

We are much stricter about what goes into sdk, since that is exposed in 
the flatpak runtime.

Michael