Re: [gentoo-dev] Slacker archs

[Francesco Riosa]

As other have pointed out these statistics are not rappresentative of 
how mips is stopping developers to do work on their packages.
Also as stated in http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163795 Stephen 
Becker alias "geoman" has promised us all to retire soon, so the 
situation can only become worse for mips and much more breathable for 
everyone else.

Ciaran McCreesh ha scritto:
> It is widely perceived that Gentoo has a huge problem with slacker
> archs cluttering up the tree and making maintainers' work harder.
> Clearly, something needs to be done about this.

It's even more perceived that there are a couple of satellite people who 
are working very strongly and sometimes (sadly) successfully to create 
an un-healty environment for developers and users. Personally I would 
mention you Caranm, beu and geoman.

>
> I think the first step is to establish what all the problem
> architectures are. We all know that mips is by far the worst offender,
> but by how much? Rather than speculating wildly, I decided to make use
> of adjutrix and wc to find out. So, here we have a table showing just
> how much mips is a slacker arch:

Snipped a pure numeric comparison.

>
> As expected, supporting minority archs is leading to tree-wide bloat
> and huge initial rsync times for users. Clearly something has to be
> done to protect Gentoo from those useless minority archs! I mean, how
> many users do we *really* have using amd64 or x86?
>

Better protect gentoo and it's developer, especially the more active 
ones from the gravitational waves of those few, very annoying 
satellites. Then it will be possible to actually work to the rest.


P.S. yes the mispell of ciranm is childly intentional.

-- Francesco
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