21.08.2013 15:04, Markos Chandras пишет: > Hi, > > It's time of year again to consider moving a few arches to dev-only status. > > I propose the following arches to lose their stable keywords > > - s390 > - sh > - ia64 > - alpha > - m68k > - sparc > > The manpower on these arches is below acceptable levels and they often > block stabilizations > for many months. This also causes troubles to developers trying to get > rid of old versions of > packages. > > I am CC'ing Mike and on this to draw his attention since he seems to > be doing stabilizations and > keywording on a few of them. Moreover, Agostino is also doing a lot of > work on these arches. > Consider what will happen if he ever goes MIA or decides to retire ;) > We will probably end up > with a pile of stabilization bugs like the good old days. > > In my opinion, having these arches be ~arch only, will improve the > overall user experience > since the arch teams will only have to test a single tree. It will > also help developers get rid of > old ebuilds and keep the portage tree healthy and reasonably updated. > > If I get enough positive feedback on this, I will propose this in the > next Council's agenda. >
+1 for that. Unless we have more manpower on them, their 'stable' state can bring false expectations to users. Do not get me wrong, i am all for choice, but if we can not bring quality stabilization on those arches(as we have no hardware, no manpower, etc.) - they should go to unstable. -- Best regards, Sergey Popov Gentoo developer Gentoo Desktop-effects project lead Gentoo Qt project lead Gentoo Proxy maintainers project lead
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