[gentoo-dev] Guarantees of unstable architectures

[Marek Szuba]

Dear everyone,

During the open-floor part of this month's Council meeting I asked 
whether there is any official policy regarding what is or is not 
guaranteed for hardware architectures we do not consider stable in 
Gentoo. For reference, according to the current version of 
profiles/arches.desc (commit 7bdebec50c44c0222bf76334c34926b593e94dd4, 
dated 2021-04-05) this means: alpha, ia64, m68k, mips, riscv, s390,
and all Prefix arches.

As it turns out, we do not in fact have any such policy. On the other 
hand, during my time as a Gentoo developer I have heard from other 
developers a fairly wide range of opinions on the subject - from 
insisting on clean QA results, passing tests etc. regardless of whether 
an arch is stable or not to assuming we guarantee nothing for unstable 
arches.

Anyway, it has been decided that it makes sense to discuss this on the 
mailing list before making it a Council matter. Therefore - what do you 
all think here?

-- 
Marecki