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On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 6:04 AM, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote: |
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>>>>>> On Sun, 15 Sep 2013, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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>> I didn't really get any response to this one way or another. At the |
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>> last council meeting a majority of the votes were in favor of |
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>> delaying taking action, so this is back on the agenda. |
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>> I have yet to see either of the following on this list: |
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>> 1. Specific examples of bugs where a minor arch is making a |
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>> maintainer's life difficult. Please post if you have them. |
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>> 2. Members of these arch teams posting here committing to either |
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>> stabilize new versions or unkeyword old versions in a timely manner. |
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>> The responses to either of these (or lack thereof) are likely to |
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>> influence my vote at the meeting. Note, I'm not interested in mere |
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>> comments that people want an arch to stay stable supported (which |
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>> I've seen plenty of). I'm interested in COMMITMENT to be |
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>> stable-supportable (which I've seen none of). The lack of the |
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>> latter is what is going to cause a package to be dropped - I'd love |
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>> to see every arch that exists stable-supported on Gentoo, along with |
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>> world peace. This is a volunteer distro - in general you get the |
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>> features you pitch in to help deliver, and if you're depending on a |
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>> minor arch you REALLY need to step up as there aren't many of you |
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>> out there. That said, I would like specific examples of cases where |
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>> dropping a minor arch would have helped - the onus is on those |
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>> wanting the status quo changed to present a case. |
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> [Crossposting to -dev. Replies should go to -project if possible.] |
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> Again, no reply. I suspect the outcome of today's vote will be that |
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> stable keywords for the architectures in question (alpha, ia64, m68k, |
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> s390, sh, sparc) should be dropped. |
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> Arch teams, last chance to speak up. |
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> Ulrich |
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I've already spoken up as have others. I'm an alpha maintainer and I'm |
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against this. jmorgan is a sparc maintainer and he's against it. |
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I don't care about the others, and frankly understand the frustration |
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with long stable requests, but leave alpha out of it. |
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