[gentoo-dev] Re: Clarifying if some arch teams allows maintainers to stabilize package on arches they can test

[Tom Gall]

As one of the few people working on ARM64 I’m in agreement. 

Sure a bug or two is probably going to pop up on account of the change but in the grand scheme this seems like a good move.

On Jul 27, 2014, at 10:43 AM, Rick Zero_Chaos Farina <zerochaos@g.o> wrote:

> Signed PGP part
> On 07/27/2014 09:55 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote:
> > Today some user on IRC noted that there were some doubts about if
> > developers are allowed to stabilize packages they maintain when they are
> > able to test on relevant arches (I guess this would benefit amd64 and
> > x86 mostly as it's likely more spread).
> >
> > If I don't misremember amd64 team allows that, but looks like devmanual
> > doesn't reflect that yet:
> > http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/ebuild-maintenance/
> >
> > Then, I guess we would need a confirmation to fix devmanual and, in
> > advance, know more about if there is any other arch team allowing it
> > (x86?)
> >
> The current arm team policy is that anyone who tests on arm may mark
> ~arm, but only arch team members may mark things stable.  That said, we
> do have a pretty lax policy for joining our team.
>
> Additionally, it should be noted that this policy is not meant to get in
> the maintainer's way when they truly do know best.  If a maintainer were
> to need to introduce a fix to a config file, or some fix that didn't
> change any C code or whatever that maintainer thinks truly shouldn't
> affect compilation on any arch, then I think a stable bump is fine, and
> avoids undue stress on the arch teams.
>
> Thanks,
> Zero_Chaos
> Arm Arch Team co-Lead
>
> > Of course, developers stabilizing packages should still follow the usual
> > test procedures as arch teams members will do.
> >

Exactly.

Tom

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