On 6/1/08, Richard Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote:
> Ryan Hill wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 01 Jun 2008 19:41:28 +0200
> > Raúl Porcel <armin76@g.o> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > IMHO the packages should be keyworded if an arch team member or an
> > > user of that arch requests it. Keywording something if an user of
> > > said arch doesn't request it, is a waste of resources.
> > >
> >
> > How is making things available to your users a waste of resources?
> > Anyways, if you're so far behind that you don't think you can manage
> > keywording another package then just say so and deny the request.
> >
> >
>
>  ++
>
>  I'd like to comment that in theory a package maintainer should have a
> decent idea of what archs a particular package should work on.  I can't
> imagine that the vmware maintainers are going to be sending keyword requests
> to the sparc team...

Contrary to your theory I think in the past this has proven to be
false; however I am not sure how often this was the case (eg. were
just a few maintainers overzeallous or did we have widespread
problems.)

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