Dnia 2015-02-16, o godz. 10:37:12 William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> napisał(a):
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 02:34:50PM +0100, Pacho Ramos wrote: > > Hello > > > > Every day I am hitting tons of blockers stabilizations and keywording > > requests for alpha, sparc, ia64, ppc and ppc64. > > > > Again, I would suggest to either decrease radically the amount of stable > > packages of some of that arches or even make them testing only. > > > > For reducing their stable tree, my suggestion would be to either keep > > their current stage3 packages stable or stage3+some concrete (and > > public) list of packages. > > > > Currently situation is not good at all as we rely on mostly one member > > needing to handle most stable work and, if any stablereq has any issue > > leading to it not being able to be handled in an "automated" way, the > > bug gets blocked for months. Also, keywording work is mostly stalled on > > this arches as it's done by even less people. > > > > The current policy of maintainers dropping keywords after 90 days is > > simply not applied because it leads up to that maintainer needing to > > kill himself that keyword and ALL the reverse deps keywords and, then, > > all that effort should probably be replaced by making the opposite, I > > mean, reducing the stable tree of that arches to a minimum and moving > > all the other packages to testing. The main advantage of this is that it > > needs maybe more effort in one round but it solves the problem for the > > future. On the other hand trying to kill keywords of a package *and all > > its reverse deps* requires a lot of work every time the problem appears. > > I think the cleanest way forward would be to mark these arch's dev or > exp in the profiles. That way, maintainers don't have to worry about > them and the people maintaining the arch's can determine what needs to > be stabilized at their own paces. Sounds like a very bad idea. This will only cause developers to frequently break the tree accidentally because of no repoman checks by default. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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