Re: [gentoo-dev] tentative x86 arch team glep

[Stuart Herbert]

Hi Grant,

On Sun, 2005-09-04 at 09:37 -0500, Grant Goodyear wrote:
> Dear all,
>   Here's a GLEP that I'm thinking about right now.  It's not yet
> official, since I'd like to get some feedback beforehand (which helps to
> ensure that I'm not abusing my GLEP-editor powers).  If you have
> additional arguments either pro or con, please send them my way so that
> I may incorporate them.
>
> Best,
> g2boojum

For better or for worse, x86 is the "maintainer arch" for a large amount
of our packages.  With the new x86 arch team being the only team allowed
to stabilise packages on the x86 arch, the concept of the "maintainer
arch" will finally be removed from the tree.  This leaves a problem -
how can package maintainers and arch maintainers work together to ensure
that arch teams only stabilise packages that the package maintainers
consider appropriate?

I can't claim credit for the following idea, but I can say that it's one
we've been using in the PHP Overlay in recent weeks, and it has made my
job easier as the PHP maintainer for the ppc arch.

Introduce a new arch keyword "maint", to turn the concept of the
"maintainer arch" from an intangible into something real.  Package
maintainers can then mark packages "~maint" or "maint" as required, and
leave the real arch keywords for the arch teams to handle.  This
approach ensures that arch maintainers have the metadata they need to
know which packages the package maintainers consider appropriate for
stabilising, and which ones they don't.  Any guesswork is removed.

I'd like to see this proposal in the final GLEP.

Best regards,
Stu
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