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On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 16:45:24 -0400 |
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Olivier Crete <tester@g.o> wrote: |
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> You are comparing apples and oranges.. Most of the herd devs only have |
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> x86 and are not able to test amd64. That's the main difference. |
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Most of the mips devs only have 64-bit big endian SGI hardware, and |
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aren't able to test on little-endian systems. Endianness issues are at |
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least as big a problem as 64-bit issues when porting software. |
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> And I dont think the QA is worst on x86.. Most herd devs are on x86 |
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> and its their responsability to do their QA. I've seen many horrible |
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> ebuilds done by ppc people too. |
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QA needs more than just the ebuilds not to suck. It needs someone |
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making sure that the current stable versions of various packages play |
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nicely together; see Ciaran's mail. |
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