On Wed, Mar 04, 2026 at 12:12:14PM -0800, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> So, this sort of appeared after a casual bit of discussion the other
> day. I hadn't really dug into what was desired here yet. :)
> 
> That said....
> 
> We have: 
> 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures
> 
> It's less out of date that I thought it was, but it is still a bit
> confusing. Mostly around 'alternative' arches (there's two kinds: those
> in the primary koji and those not.).
> 
> I'd like to overhall it and move it into docs.fedoraproject.org (I guess
> under fesco policy?).
> 
> I don't think primary vs alternative arches make much sense as terms, or
> at least as they are currently defined. I'd suggest:
> 
> primary arches - those arches that are build in the main fedora koji.
> 
> alternative arches - those arches not built in the main fedora koji

Sounds good too me.

> but perhaps we need more distinction on alternative, because we have
> things that are just stood up by some folks in the community and could
> be one off efforts (I recompiled a bunch of stuff on $foo arch), or a
> community group stands up their own koji and builds things ongoing, or
> (as riscv is now) a infra managed koji is setup and community folks
> build things in an ongoing way and work to get parity with primary.

If community folks do something official, we don't even need to
describe this in official docs.

> Of course there's even more shades in there, for example, right now the
> risc-v koji is using community builders because we don't have any
> dedicated ones yet. Having those would be requirement before trying to
> promote it to the main koji.
> 
> Additionally, we have Architecture Maintainer Teams defined there.
> There are still ppc64le, s390x, aarch64 specific maintainers around who
> handle rare corner cases, but do we still want to have all those
> requirements and responsiblities for them? and/or should that only be
> for 'up and coming' arches? Some things make no sense anymore like
> regular meetings on irc. ;) 

I'd drop anything that is not currently done, i.e. most of the second
part of that wiki page.

Zbyszek
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