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On 08/05/2017 15:49, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> Dnia 8 maja 2017 15:27:18 CEST, Dirkjan Ochtman <djc@g.o> |
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> napisał(a): |
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>> On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 12:49 PM, Mikle Kolyada |
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>> <zlogene@g.o> wrote: |
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>>> Against. Do not touch things you are not working on, council |
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>>> has |
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>> already |
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>>> dropped m68k s390 and sh to exp few years ago. Now we have a |
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>>> big mess there and only, while ia64 sparc and co have slow but |
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>>> progress and mature enough stable profiles. |
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>> |
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>> Obviously we should prevent big messes from happening. But it's |
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>> a mistake that things I don't work on don't affect me -- work |
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>> left over by lagging arch teams can affect me in many ways, in |
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>> terms of having to keep older versions of my packages working and |
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>> in the tree, and having to keep track of many more KEYWORDREQs |
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>> and STABLEREQs. |
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>> |
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>> To me it's likely that the pace of stabilization for everyone is |
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>> affected by the slower arches, in the sense that maintainers are |
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>> less likely to stabilize newer versions if they see that arches |
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>> can't keep up with previous requests. This means that even stable |
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>> amd64 users are affected to some extent by ppc being slow to |
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>> stabilize. |
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> Plus the usual mess of having to keep up with multiple large |
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> stablereqs for stuff where we need to stabilize newer while some |
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> arches are still two stabilizations behind. |
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> Not to mention when we want to stabilize a new version but the |
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> arches still haven't even keyworded it... |
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That ! |
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We can all face that our latency is not good for our traction on a |
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wider user base. |
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Freeing ourselves from this kind of latency is energy saving and thus |
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a positive move imho. |
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>> Cheers, |
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>> |
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>> Dirkjan |
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