Re: Maintainers, porters, and burden of porting [and 1 more messages]

2011-08-31 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 02:52:53PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Let me make an alternative proposal: > > * The root cause bug in the BTS would be given a special tag >("arch-blocker:" or something). I will call such a bug which >is open and has existed in this state for 30 days a "ripe ar

Re: Maintainers, porters, and burden of porting [and 1 more messages]

2011-08-31 Thread Ian Jackson
Lucas Nussbaum writes ("Maintainers, porters, and burden of porting"): > However, issues such as miscompilation or broken syscall or libc > semantics are largely undetected. To illustrate this, you can have a > look at #635126 (miscompilation on armel and sparc) and #639658 > (forks+threads fun on