Hey Levente, On 2025-07-01 17:57:37 (+0200), Levente Polyak wrote: > There's already a ton of community interest and effort around non-x86_64. > There's plenty of low hanging fruits and clean patches that are easy to > review, well contained, and good groundwork. So instead of waiting for the > perfect day before starting, I'd like to open the door to small, clear, and > non intrusive contributions under tightly scoped rules. > > We should rather slowly and carefully build up compatibility now, than > scramble once infra, hardware and tooling catches up. I propose the > following guidelines as a first step towards implementing > [RFC0032](https://rfc.archlinux.page/0032-arch-linux-ports/).
I agree! > ### Merge-request indicator > > All secondary architecture related merge-requests must be flagged with the > new `pkg::ports` GitLab label. It'll help separate them from the usual > requests and allow interested packagers and contributors to filter on them > globally, to help out others. Externals usually do not have the right to set a label on a merge request (I might be wrong here). To clarify: The bug wranglers/package maintainers should add this label, right? > I think this really hits the right balance, tight enough to avoid burnout, > open enough to make progress and welcoming enough to motivate and start > harvesting work from our community. I'd obviously be happy to see this happen! If people in the team are generally fine with this, I think we should also create a dedicated news entry. Best, David -- https://sleepmap.de
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