Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving more arches to dev profiles

[Sergey Popov]

21.08.2013 15:04, Markos Chandras пишет:
> Hi,
>
> It's time of year again to consider moving a few arches to dev-only status.
>
> I propose the following arches to lose their stable keywords
>
> - s390
> - sh
> - ia64
> - alpha
> - m68k
> - sparc
>
> The manpower on these arches is below acceptable levels and they often
> block stabilizations
> for many months. This also causes troubles to developers trying to get
> rid of old versions of
> packages.
>
> I am CC'ing Mike and  on this to draw his attention since he seems to
> be doing stabilizations and
> keywording on a few of them. Moreover, Agostino is also doing a lot of
> work on these arches.
> Consider what will happen if he ever goes MIA or decides to retire ;)
> We will probably end up
> with a pile of stabilization bugs like the good old days.
>
> In my opinion, having these arches be ~arch only, will improve the
> overall user experience
> since the arch teams will only have to test a single tree. It will
> also help developers get rid of
> old ebuilds and keep the portage tree healthy and reasonably updated.
>
> If I get enough positive feedback on this, I will propose this in the
> next Council's agenda.
>

+1 for that. Unless we have more manpower on them, their 'stable' state
can bring false expectations to users. Do not get me wrong, i am all for
choice, but if we can not bring quality stabilization on those arches(as
we have no hardware, no manpower, etc.) - they should go to unstable.

-- 
Best regards, Sergey Popov
Gentoo developer
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Gentoo Qt project lead
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