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On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 14:54 -0400, Stephen P. Becker wrote: |
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> > Is it just me, it seems that only sparc/mips devs want that kind of |
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> > change and non none of the x86/amd64 devs... |
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> > I still dont see what practical advantage that would bring to x86/amd64 |
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> > users or developers? |
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> If you haven't figured out the reason we are pushing for this sort of |
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> thing yet, it is because x86 is unsupported in Gentoo (if you consider |
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> what all the other arches have to do to be "supported"). As a result, |
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> it causes the quality of the portage tree to suffer. Time and time |
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> again, it has been brought up that x86 should have an arch team, yet |
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> nobody ever acts on it. Well, merging the "two" arches will help solve |
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> this problem. |
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So would just making an x86 arch team. It would also be much less of a |
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problem than merging x86 and amd64. How about this? I proclaim and x86 |
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arch team now exists. It already has a security liason. |
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$ cat /var/mail/alias/arch/x86 |
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avenj |
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solar |
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tester |
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port001 |
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azarah |
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Seems that we even have two of our new Council members on the team. |
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Anybody else want to join the team? Just add yourself to the alias and |
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start paying attention to requests that are submitted to x86@g.o |
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via bugzilla. |
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Somehow, I find that infinitely easier to implement than being forced |
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into grouping together two KEYWORDS, that while technically possible to |
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merge, would be a logistical nightmare due to limitations in our current |
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developer pool's knowledge. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager |
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