Moving away from "manual JLL packages" in the General registry

Internals & Design
1

By “manual JLL”, I mean a JLL package that does not come from Yggdrasil, the Julia community build tree.

In the past, we’ve allowed some manual JLLs to be registered in the General registry. However, after some internal discussion, the registry maintainers have decided that we won’t accept manual JLLs in the future. Going forward, all JLLs should come from Yggdrasil, so that we can centralize JLL reviews in a single place.

Existing manual JLLs will not be affected. This only applies going forward.

2 Likes
2

Do we have a definition of what a JLL is? Is this policy just about package names? Or is it more generally about packages that only exist to distribute binaries through their artifacts?