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| author | Mike McQuaid | 2015-01-14 19:26:58 +0000 |
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| committer | Mike McQuaid | 2015-01-15 11:20:24 +0000 |
| commit | 9d194861757a3430e7ca9ba3e6a8b3db1d22ee9c (patch) | |
| tree | dbf311f8ff1a1204d6657d987675ceb1e3c271ad /share | |
| parent | 8a31c90175334c0d4174a154a650c9abb84b17b2 (diff) | |
| download | homebrew-9d194861757a3430e7ca9ba3e6a8b3db1d22ee9c.tar.bz2 | |
Acceptable Formulae: clarify rules.
Some clarification on these given discussion in https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/pull/35853.
Closes #35880.
Signed-off-by: Mike McQuaid <mike@mikemcquaid.com>
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| -rw-r--r-- | share/doc/homebrew/Acceptable-Formulae.md | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/share/doc/homebrew/Acceptable-Formulae.md b/share/doc/homebrew/Acceptable-Formulae.md index ee6e82acc..3fb7c6d1e 100644 --- a/share/doc/homebrew/Acceptable-Formulae.md +++ b/share/doc/homebrew/Acceptable-Formulae.md @@ -81,9 +81,9 @@ foo-ruby foo-perl etc. sucks. ### Niche (or self-submitted) Stuff<a name="Niche_Stuff"></a> The software in question must be -* maintained +* maintained (e.g. upstream is still making new releases) * known -* stable +* stable (e.g. not declared "unstable" or "beta" by upstream) * used * have a homepage @@ -95,6 +95,11 @@ We frown on authors submitting their own work unless it is very popular. Don’t forget Homebrew is all git underneath! Maintain your own fork or tap if you have to! +There may be exceptions to these rules in the main repository, we may +include things that don't meet these criteria or reject things that do. +Please trust that we need to use our discretion based on our experience +running a package manager. + ### Stuff that builds a .app Don’t make your formula build an `.app` (native OS X Application), we don’t want those things in Homebrew. Make it build a command line tool |