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Hi, |
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On Mon, 10 Jul 2017 13:49:40 -0400 Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 1:22 PM, Agostino Sarubbo <ago@g.o> wrote: |
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> > Now, since I work on these arches just to help, i.e. I don't have any business |
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> > and I do non have any installation of those arches and the work I'm doing is |
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> > not appreciated at all I decided to stop for now. |
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> I wouldn't say that your work is unappreciated. However, when those |
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> are called "unmaintained" arches it reflects the fact that very few |
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> are contributing to them. The nature of a linux distro is that one |
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> person could be working 24x7 with bleeding fingers and it would be |
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> like sticking a finger in a dike. It takes more than one contributor |
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> (even a serious one) to make something like this viable. |
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> > I will take a break also from amd64 and x86...let's see how things will |
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> > change. |
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> I'm not sure I really see the connection but you're of course welcome |
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> to work on whatever you want to. In the case of amd64 we already |
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> encourage individual package maintainers to stabilize their own |
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> packages, and I think this is much more sustainable than having an |
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> arch team do it. |
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Huh? Have our rules changed? As per devmanual[1] and GLEP 40[2] |
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stabilization must be carried out by arch teams, unless a special |
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arrangement is done between a developer and a team. |
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[1] https://devmanual.gentoo.org/keywording/index.html |
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[2] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GLEP:40 |
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Best regards, |
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Andrew Savchenko |
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