Re: [gentoo-project] call for agenda items -- council meeting 2017-09-10

[Rich Freeman]

On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 2:08 PM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
> W dniu pon, 04.09.2017 o godzinie 12∶48 -0500, użytkownik William Hubbs
> napisał:
>> On Mon, Sep 04, 2017 at 07:36:32PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
>> > W dniu pon, 04.09.2017 o godzinie 19∶22 +0200, użytkownik David Seifert
>> > napisał:
>> > > Hi William,
>> > >
>> > > given the massive inactivity of the sparc and hppa arches, I would like
>> > > to request dropping their profiles to 'dev'. I would like two votes:
>> > >
>> > > 1) Should sparc be dropped to a 'dev' profile?
>> > >
>> > > 2) Should hppa be dropped to a 'dev' profile?
>> > >
>> > > I hope this can clear a lot of the STABLEREQ and KEYWORDREQ backlog
>> > > that is making maintenance in Gentoo cumbersome.
>> > >
>> >
>> > Weren't we discussing moving them to ~arch? I don't like marking
>> > profiles non-stable because it disables CI checks on pull requests, so
>> > whatever people do with those keywords, we no longer verify it.
>>
>> Moving to dev means repoman doesn't scream about things, that's the
>> cleaner way to go imo. Also, that means we don't have to go through the
>> tree and change keywords everywhere.
>>
>
> ...and that is a problem because...?
>

That is a change that is really hard to revert, while reversing the
stable flag would not be nearly as hard if the arch team wants to step
up.  You don't immediately lose all the past stable testing work that
was done on the arch.

Long-term either approach yields the same result.

If marking the profile as dev causes some breakage for users, then
those users should seriously consider contributing to the arch team,
because they're probably the only people around who might potentially
do so.  If not, they get to keep the pieces.

-- 
Rich