On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 10:22 PM, Jeremy Olexa <darkside@g.o> wrote:
> On 11/11/2010 05:00 PM, Matt Turner wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> I'd like to begin stabilizing packages on MIPS. I've gotten acks from
>> Redhatter, leio, and r0bertz, and Kumba doesn't really care.
>>
>> What's the best method to go about doing this? Stabilize the system
>> packages, then remove ~mips from ACCEPT_KEYWORDS in the profiles?
>> Should we target package versions that aren't stabilized on other
>> architectures yet, so that we'll have an extended testing period
>> before they'll come up for stabilization? That is, can I plan to make
>> gcc-4.5.1 or something the first restabilized version of gcc, go ahead
>> and begin testing it, and be ready for stabilization when toolchain
>> requests it?
>
> What is the long term plan here? Stable @system set, stable everything
> currently ~mips keyworded, or something random in between that? I'd caution
> mips keywording here in general as the team is small and seems unlikely to
> keep up from my POV. I'm not being negative, just being real. I suppose it
> is somewhat possible to keep up if the mips team dropped some ~mips packages
> in general and focused on the @system set.
>
> -Jeremy

I don't have a long-term plan other than to stabilize the base system
and provide n32 stages. Where it goes from there, I don't know.

There's certainly the potential for new users and developers to join
in since Lemote/Gdium hardware is available and in general faster than
all but the fastest Linux-supported SGI systems.

Though, you'd think with six members of the MIPS herd we'd have enough
man-power between us to keep some stable keywords.

Matt