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On 12/12/2017 19:24, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 1:15 PM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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>> It seems that we've started lacking arch testers for AMD64 architecture. |
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>> At this moment, there are already 159 bugs in amd64 backlog, and there |
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>> is no noticeable progress. New stabilization requests are usually |
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>> handled much faster by x86, sparc and hppa teams! |
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>> If you have a stable AMD64 system and would like to help arch testing, |
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>> please do! I don't know what exact rules for that are but I think [1] |
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>> could be helpful. If someone knows better, then please share. |
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> As far as I'm aware the standing policy already exists that |
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> maintainers can stabilize their own packages on amd64. |
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It would be interesting to discuss if proxy maintainers should be able |
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to stabilize too. |
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> That said, if somebody wants to organize an AT program for amd64 they |
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> should feel free to do so. I could explain how things used to work at |
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> least if that is helpful. |
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> The old way it used to work is that ATs had to pass the ebuild quiz |
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> and they would get editbugs privs to tag bugs as tested. I won't |
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> elaborate here unless there is interest... |
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