On 12/12/2017 19:24, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 1:15 PM, Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> It seems that we've started lacking arch testers for AMD64 architecture. >> At this moment, there are already 159 bugs in amd64 backlog, and there >> is no noticeable progress. New stabilization requests are usually >> handled much faster by x86, sparc and hppa teams! >> >> If you have a stable AMD64 system and would like to help arch testing, >> please do! I don't know what exact rules for that are but I think [1] >> could be helpful. If someone knows better, then please share. >> > As far as I'm aware the standing policy already exists that > maintainers can stabilize their own packages on amd64.
It would be interesting to discuss if proxy maintainers should be able to stabilize too. > > That said, if somebody wants to organize an AT program for amd64 they > should feel free to do so. I could explain how things used to work at > least if that is helpful. > > The old way it used to work is that ATs had to pass the ebuild quiz > and they would get editbugs privs to tag bugs as tested. I won't > elaborate here unless there is interest... >
