On Friday 20 May 2005 16:51, Brian Jackson wrote: > > Get every dev access to all the supported arches (some of this could > probably be done with emulators of some sort, qemu or somesuch). Make them > test on every arch before they change any keywords.
It's a nice idea (I know I recently opened "negotiations" up with the mips team for access so I could close some of my open bugs against them), but the two problems I can see with this are: remote access tends to mean you can't test any X related properly (shoot, I have a sparc sitting next to me headless, but being headless I never broach the gui related sparc stuff), and ultimately, that kind of open ended freedom will still result in people marking things ~arch and arch that they shouldn't be - maybe they rushed and just made sure it installed, not really worked, or they figure they can always go back later if they see any bugs. Man, when did I become the dour note? -- -----o()o--------------------------------------------- Michael Cummings | #gentoo-dev, #gentoo-perl Gentoo Perl Dev | on irc.freenode.net -----o()o--------------------------------------------- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
