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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 |