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From: "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Reminder: ALLARCHES
Date: Sun, 01 May 2016 14:04:07
Message-Id: 201605011603.52885.dilfridge@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Reminder: ALLARCHES by Jeroen Roovers
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4 Am Sonntag, 1. Mai 2016, 15:32:27 schrieb Jeroen Roovers:
5 > On Sat, 30 Apr 2016 23:16:42 +0200
6 >
7 > "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o> wrote:
8 > > just as a small reminder, to ease the load on all arch teams:
9 > >
10 > > If a stablerequest has the keyword ALLARCHES set, then
11 > > * the first arch that tests successfully and stabilizes
12 > > * can and *should* immediately stabilize for all requested arches!
13 >
14 > can => is allowed
15 > should => may
16
17 Well, that's roughly similar to "if I have bugedit permissions I should
18 immediately assign a new bug to the correct maintainer".
19
20 Yes I may choose not to do that, but then others may choose to see my actions
21 as unproductive or obstructive.
22
23 >
24 > > Whether this keyword is set on a bug is decision of the package
25 > > maintainer.
26 > >
27 > > For example, Perl team sets ALLARCHES normall for all pure-perl
28 > > packages (i.e., no compilation / gcc involved).
29 >
30 > And it means we're missing opportunities where "pure" interpreted
31 > packages may test corner cases of the language implementation and find
32 > bugs in (JIT or previously) "compiled" code. And that means we're
33 > calling things "stable" that may expose such bugs that turn out not to
34 > be corner cases at all and affect running systems in unpleasant ways.
35
36 No objections... The only "way out" is to have more arch testers. Apart from
37 cloning Ago, what could we do to achieve that?
38
39 (For the record, hppa is definitely NOT the problem.)
40
41 Cheers,
42 Andreas
43
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45
46 Andreas K. Huettel
47 Gentoo Linux developer
48 dilfridge@g.o
49 http://www.akhuettel.de/
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Reminder: ALLARCHES Daniel Campbell <zlg@g.o>