On Sun, 04 Sep 2005 22:43:20 +0100 Stuart Herbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Sun, 2005-09-04 at 21:57 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > Yeah, foser's on holiday. Good time to push the GLEP through. | | How typical of you to try and drag this discussion down into something | personal :( If you keep feeling the need to do this, do everyone a | favour and keep your mouth shut instead. It detracts from otherwise | insightful and useful comments.
What, weren't you around for all the previous attempts at this proposal? | > The only reason certain arch teams are considered a bottleneck is | > because they do real testing. As opposed to x86 or ppc, where | > packages which won't even unpack get marked stable... | | You can't help yourself, can you? You have to have a pop at | someone :( It's the truth, it's a problem and it needs fixing. | It's impossible for an arch team to keep pace with the rate of change | in the tree and do adequate testing too. No arch team is currently | big enough. Arch teams are always going to lag behind what package | maintainers do. It's a simple numbers game. | | There are only two arch teams with 20 or more members (amd64 and ppc), | as of 22:30 BST today. They have to deal with the output of approx | 155 herds, plus countless changes that don't go through herds in the | first place. The numbers speak for themselves. Arch teams are | bottlenecks. Until the numbers change, that won't change. You want numbers? A total of 31 ebuilds seems outdated on sparc A total of 72 ebuilds seems outdated on x86 A total of 3634 packages are keyworded on sparc A total of 7793 packages are keyworded on x86 Real numbers. Not guesswork based upon misconceptions. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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