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From: Michael 'veremitz' Everitt <gentoo@×××××××.xyz>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Keywordreqs and slacking arch teams
Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2020 00:19:54
Message-Id: bd2ddcd9-905a-12e7-b6d6-135aa2a4614f@veremit.xyz
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Keywordreqs and slacking arch teams by Rolf Eike Beer
1 On 02/01/20 23:35, Rolf Eike Beer wrote:
2 > Am Freitag, 3. Januar 2020, 00:25:06 CET schrieb Mike Pagano:
3 >> On Thursday, January 2, 2020 3:32:12 PM EST Rolf Eike Beer wrote:
4 >>>> - Allowed a simple "Add keyword(s) <y..> for package <x>" interface,
5 >>>>
6 >>>> that intelligently created an issue and a target list, and then once
7 >>>> the list was built, constantly ensured the list to be valid, or
8 >>>> determined automatically when sub-work was completed and reducing the
9 >>>> published list automatically, and then responded to potential issues
10 >>>> based on changes in git, ( as opposed to being only triggered when
11 >>>> the bug was touched )
12 >>> As someone who does both keywordings and stabilizations regularly on hppa
13 >>> and sparc I think I must share a bit of my experiences:
14 >> <snip>
15 >>
16 >> hppa is making us keep old kernels around [1]. Should the kernel team be
17 >> doing more to get your attention then CC'ing hppa on all of the kernel
18 >> STABLEREQ bugs [2]?
19 > I only run vanilla-sources since there are still lot of cache corruption
20 > problems in hppa kernels, or whatever makes them flaky.
21 >
22 > Linux pioneer 5.4.6-parisc64 #1 SMP Fri Dec 27 10:23:09 CET 2019 parisc64
23 > PA8800 (Mako) 9000/785/C8000 GNU/Linux
24 > Linux voyager 5.4.6-parisc #1 Fri Dec 27 15:46:43 CET 2019 parisc PA8600 (PCX-
25 > W+) 9000/785/C3600 GNU/Linux
26 >
27 > So _I_ personally would say just drop old kernels, but that is in no way
28 > authorative.
29 >
30 > Eike
31 Is it viable at all to test gentoo-sources or would it be better simply to
32 unkeyword?

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