On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 18:49:03 +0100 foser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not, but should minorities not also be aware of the fact that they have > a smaller user/developer base ? I see a lot of arches lagging way behind > on certain packages or even having it only testing since forever, maybe > being a bit more selective in what packages you can really support would > do good to the alt arches, their maintainers, gentoo as a whole & keeps > other devs from bumping alt arches to stable for testing (as wrong as it > is).
Normally the problem (at least for sparc) is that there are enormous amount of packages out there, and only a handful of devs. Most of the time we have no clue or expertiece in the given package, and therefore have to spend an hour or two understanding what the package does and testing it's functionality to make sure it appears to be working correctly, then being able to verify with other developers. What would really speed this up would be for each package to have a test plan and/or scripts as an easy way for arch devs to be able to test a package, verify it's functionality is working, and feel confident about marking it stable. Granted this is a bit of a large task, but a little overhead at the beginning saves a lot of overhead later on (and makes it easier to transition knowledge in case a dev leaves or maintainership gets handed off, etc). -- Jason Wever Gentoo/Sparc Team Co-Lead
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