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On Mon, Sep 04, 2017 at 12:48:02PM -0500, William Hubbs wrote: |
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> On Mon, Sep 04, 2017 at 07:36:32PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> > W dniu pon, 04.09.2017 o godzinie 19∶22 +0200, użytkownik David Seifert |
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> > napisał: |
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> > > Hi William, |
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> > > given the massive inactivity of the sparc and hppa arches, I would like |
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> > > to request dropping their profiles to 'dev'. I would like two votes: |
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> > > |
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> > > 1) Should sparc be dropped to a 'dev' profile? |
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> > > 2) Should hppa be dropped to a 'dev' profile? |
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> > > I hope this can clear a lot of the STABLEREQ and KEYWORDREQ backlog |
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> > > that is making maintenance in Gentoo cumbersome. |
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> > Weren't we discussing moving them to ~arch? I don't like marking |
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> > profiles non-stable because it disables CI checks on pull requests, so |
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> > whatever people do with those keywords, we no longer verify it. |
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> Moving to dev means repoman doesn't scream about things, that's the |
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> cleaner way to go imo. Also, that means we don't have to go through the |
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> tree and change keywords everywhere. |
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I would like to add a couple of things. |
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<council hat> |
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The arch teams can do this themselves without going through the council, |
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so I see it as coming to us only due to the inactivity of the arch teams. |
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For me, the question should be, have the arch teams been inactive long |
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enough that maintenance is being hindered in Gentoo? |
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If yes, we should allow it. |
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</council hat> |
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As a base-system maintainer, I am concerned about the lack of response |
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on stabilizing OpenRC-0.28. |
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Thanks, |
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William |