On Wed, Mar 04, 2026 at 12:12:14PM -0800, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > So, this sort of appeared after a casual bit of discussion the other > day. I hadn't really dug into what was desired here yet. :) > > That said.... > > We have: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures > > It's less out of date that I thought it was, but it is still a bit > confusing. Mostly around 'alternative' arches (there's two kinds: those > in the primary koji and those not.). > > I'd like to overhall it and move it into docs.fedoraproject.org (I guess > under fesco policy?). > > I don't think primary vs alternative arches make much sense as terms, or > at least as they are currently defined. I'd suggest: > > primary arches - those arches that are build in the main fedora koji. > > alternative arches - those arches not built in the main fedora koji
Sounds good too me. > but perhaps we need more distinction on alternative, because we have > things that are just stood up by some folks in the community and could > be one off efforts (I recompiled a bunch of stuff on $foo arch), or a > community group stands up their own koji and builds things ongoing, or > (as riscv is now) a infra managed koji is setup and community folks > build things in an ongoing way and work to get parity with primary. If community folks do something official, we don't even need to describe this in official docs. > Of course there's even more shades in there, for example, right now the > risc-v koji is using community builders because we don't have any > dedicated ones yet. Having those would be requirement before trying to > promote it to the main koji. > > Additionally, we have Architecture Maintainer Teams defined there. > There are still ppc64le, s390x, aarch64 specific maintainers around who > handle rare corner cases, but do we still want to have all those > requirements and responsiblities for them? and/or should that only be > for 'up and coming' arches? Some things make no sense anymore like > regular meetings on irc. ;) I'd drop anything that is not currently done, i.e. most of the second part of that wiki page. Zbyszek -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new
