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Hello, |
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It makes me a bit sad to say, having helped maintain Gentoo's DEC Alpha |
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port for more than 10 years, that I think it is time to drop our stable |
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keywords to ~alpha. |
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Stable testing is a valuable service we provide to users. Time invested |
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by developers during stabilization has the potential to pay dividends to |
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users multiple times over. |
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But the presumption in that statement is that the number of users |
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meaningfully greater than the number of developers. I no longer believe |
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this is the case for Alpha. |
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As a result, I don't think it's a good use of my time to perform stable |
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testing on alpha. |
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I plan to keep the profiles "stable" (meaning no depgraph breakages) but |
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to change to ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~alpha". |
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Thoughts? |
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Matt |