On Saturday, August 06, 2011 07:49:21 Fabian Groffen wrote:
> On 06-08-2011 11:00:16 +0100, Markos Chandras wrote:
> > Oh come on Jorge. You know what I mean by slacking arches. I am not
> > talking about punishing them. Maybe drop stable keywords or drop keyword
> > from X package and shrink their tree so they can keep up with the load.
> > 
> > > This should be the arch more developers use daily and is likely the
> > > one with more members (herd count). Also, one should remember the
> > > time it takes to compile, test or debug an issue in a recent amd64
> > > system or an old / slow box with an "exotic arch" varies
> > > substantially. Not to mention that the amount of testing done on
> > > "exotic arches" varies substantially between projects.
> > 
> > I am aware of the problems and this is way I want a solution.
> 
> And what solution do you have in mind (in your Council role)?

automated build boxes + better tools for marking packages stable.  a command 
line interface that let's you view pending stable requests in a condensed 
format and quickly approve from right there (which would post a comment and 
mark the respective ebuild stable for you).

a significant chunk of time wasted on keeping packages keyworded stable is the 
bugzilla interface and actually going into the cvs tree to make the stable 
change and commit it.
-mike