On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 14:54 -0400, Stephen P. Becker wrote: > > Is it just me, it seems that only sparc/mips devs want that kind of > > change and non none of the x86/amd64 devs... > > > > I still dont see what practical advantage that would bring to x86/amd64 > > users or developers? > > If you haven't figured out the reason we are pushing for this sort of > thing yet, it is because x86 is unsupported in Gentoo (if you consider > what all the other arches have to do to be "supported"). As a result, > it causes the quality of the portage tree to suffer. Time and time > again, it has been brought up that x86 should have an arch team, yet > nobody ever acts on it. Well, merging the "two" arches will help solve > this problem.
So would just making an x86 arch team. It would also be much less of a problem than merging x86 and amd64. How about this? I proclaim and x86 arch team now exists. It already has a security liason. $ cat /var/mail/alias/arch/x86 avenj solar tester port001 azarah Seems that we even have two of our new Council members on the team. Anybody else want to join the team? Just add yourself to the alias and start paying attention to requests that are submitted to [EMAIL PROTECTED] via bugzilla. Somehow, I find that infinitely easier to implement than being forced into grouping together two KEYWORDS, that while technically possible to merge, would be a logistical nightmare due to limitations in our current developer pool's knowledge. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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