On 05/20/2016 09:47 PM, Matt Turner wrote: > On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 6:36 PM, Daniel Campbell <z...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> To make sure I understand what you're getting at, are you saying some >> devs get on board and then request to add keywords to packages that they >> already maintain? > > No, you've misunderstood. > > He's saying people add new packages and then speculatively add > keywords for a bunch of architectures that they haven't tested. This > causes unnecessary packages to be keyworded on archs that don't want > them and can hardly afford the extra load. > > The appropriate thing to do when adding a new package is to add only > keywords you can test and maintain (likely just ~amd64), and then file > a keyword request to ask arch teams to keyword the package if > appropriate, which leaves the choice to them. >
Ah, I see. In that case I'm in full agreement. We're taught during the mentoring/quizzing process that we don't keyword what we haven't tested. That's one of the most basic "rules". -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6
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