Re: [gentoo-dev] taking a break from arches stabilization

[Rich Freeman]

On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 1:22 PM, Agostino Sarubbo <ago@g.o> wrote:
>
> Now, since I work on these arches just to help, i.e. I don't have any business
> and I do non have any installation of those arches and the work I'm doing is
> not appreciated at all I decided to stop for now.

I wouldn't say that your work is unappreciated.  However, when those
are called "unmaintained" arches it reflects the fact that very few
are contributing to them.  The nature of a linux distro is that one
person could be working 24x7 with bleeding fingers and it would be
like sticking a finger in a dike.  It takes more than one contributor
(even a serious one) to make something like this viable.

> I will take a break also from amd64 and x86...let's see how things will
> change.

I'm not sure I really see the connection but you're of course welcome
to work on whatever you want to.  In the case of amd64 we already
encourage individual package maintainers to stabilize their own
packages, and I think this is much more sustainable than having an
arch team do it.  Back when amd64 was exotic and a lot of packages
needed patching to work having a focused arch team to handle this made
a lot of sense - they owned the hardware and also were accustomed to
spotting type errors and so on.  These days upstream just works on
amd64 and everybody is using it.

I'm not diminishing your contributions in any way (which have always
been tremendous).  I'm just saying that a model that depends less on
heroics would benefit everybody.

-- 
Rich