Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Jared Lindsay <cinder.sub@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] The AMD64 stable-profile team needs your help
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 18:56:47
Message-Id: e16d914c050712115411406209@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] The AMD64 stable-profile team needs your help by Simon Stelling
1 I assume by stable you mean that applicants can not be using a system
2 that uses ~amd64 packages, right? (Just want a little clarification)
3
4 On 7/12/05, Simon Stelling <blubb@g.o> wrote:
5 > Hi all,
6 >
7 > Currently, it is nearly impossible to have a pure stable system with
8 > Gentoo/AMD64. I think everybody who has ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=amd64 in his
9 > make.conf also has a rather large list of packages in
10 > /etc/portage/packages.keywords. To adress this issue, we need either a
11 > massive improvement in amount of menpower or a list of packages we can
12 > to focus on. If you run a stable system and you're interested in helping
13 > us from a long-term point of view, you could get in contact with hparker
14 > (hparker@g.o), our Arch Testers Lead. If you don't know what Arch
15 > Testers aka ATs are, you probably want to read this doc [1] first.
16 > However, if you don't want to become an AT, but still want to contribute
17 > something to the development, please email me the content of your
18 > /etc/portage/package.keywords to blubb@g.o. The data will only be
19 > used to create a list of packages which are considered more important
20 > than others. It will *not* be used for any other type of statistics, the
21 > whole procedure will be totally anonymous.
22 >
23 > Thanks in advance!
24 >
25 > [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/amd64/tests/index.xml?part=1&chap=1
26 >
27 > --
28 > Simon Stelling
29 > Gentoo/AMD64 Operational Co-Lead
30 > blubb@g.o
31 > --
32 > gentoo-amd64@g.o mailing list
33 >
34 >
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] The AMD64 stable-profile team needs your help Simon Stelling <blubb@g.o>