On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 10:51 AM, Jeroen Roovers <j...@gentoo.org> wrote: > Perhaps it's a good idea to add a section to the devmanual about adding > new keywords to packages. > > Recruits in particular might benefit from some background on what > keywording means and when it should be done, especially before they > start maintaining packages and then realise their packages are so > beautiful that they positively *deserve* to have some random keywords > added. This is not productive. > > The way it works is that users of > specific architectures find that a package works for them on their > systems (which have enough resources and have the correct interfaces for > that particular program to be used conveniently, and so on), and that > they then request that their architecture keyword be added. What > doesn't work is having a handful of keywords on a package that nobody > cares about who actually uses the architectures in question. > > Since over the years the Random Keyword Requests happen a *lot* right > after recruitment, it might even be useful to ask about this in the > quizzes. (The answer: your time is better spent fixing actual bugs. > bumping versions, adding features and maintaining a stable branch, > rather than raising the architecture count for your packages for no > adequately explored reason.) > > > Kind regards, > jer >
Both ideas (devmanual update + quiz question) seem good to me.
