[gentoo-dev] Re: Restabilizing MIPS

2010-11-15 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Hi, Matt Turner matts...@gentoo.org: I don't have a long-term plan other than to stabilize the base system and provide n32 stages. Where it goes from there, I don't know. So I am sure you coordinate with redhatter. Though, you'd think with six members of the MIPS herd we'd have enough

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Restabilizing MIPS

2010-11-15 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 11/15/10 11:20 AM, Christian Faulhammer wrote: * reducing your keyword set (stable-wise) to a relative small subset and rethink your normal testing keywords. I think there is a related point here: when you start with a minimal stable set, it's easy to extend that set later. However, if

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Restabilizing MIPS

2010-11-15 Thread Panagiotis Christopoulos
On 11:20 Mon 15 Nov , Christian Faulhammer wrote: I don't want to stop you, but you are relatively new to the real keywording business. amd64 at a point had over 30 members and could not work on the backlog in a timely manner. Think about ... I completely agree. I don't know even

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Restabilizing MIPS

2010-11-15 Thread Matt Turner
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Panagiotis Christopoulos pchr...@gentoo.org wrote: On 11:20 Mon 15 Nov     , Christian Faulhammer wrote:  I don't want to stop you, but you are relatively new to the real keywording business.  amd64 at a point had over 30 members and could not work on the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Restabilizing MIPS

2010-11-15 Thread Jeremy Olexa
On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 14:41:17 -0500, Matt Turner wrote: snip I'm not planning an ad-hoc at-random stabilization/keywording spree. I'd just like to have a stable and tested base system. Sure, but you have to understand the concerns here. You have no long-term plan, you are underestimating the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Restabilizing MIPS

2010-11-12 Thread Matt Turner
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 10:34 PM, Ryan Hill dirtye...@gentoo.org wrote: On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 20:37:51 -0500 Matt Turner matts...@gentoo.org wrote: On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Ryan Hill dirtye...@gentoo.org wrote: On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 18:00:00 -0500 Matt Turner matts...@gentoo.org wrote:

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Restabilizing MIPS

2010-11-12 Thread Stuart Longland
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 10:04:40PM -0500, Matt Turner wrote: Out of interest... did you get around to those n32 stages at all?  I'd like to get some of my old SGI kit up and going, some of them will need a complete reinstall... so I may as well do that using n32 from the outset. My O2

[gentoo-dev] Re: Restabilizing MIPS

2010-11-11 Thread Ryan Hill
On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 18:00:00 -0500 Matt Turner matts...@gentoo.org wrote: Should we target package versions that aren't stabilized on other architectures yet, so that we'll have an extended testing period before they'll come up for stabilization? That is, can I plan to make gcc-4.5.1 or

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Restabilizing MIPS

2010-11-11 Thread Matt Turner
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Ryan Hill dirtye...@gentoo.org wrote: On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 18:00:00 -0500 Matt Turner matts...@gentoo.org wrote: Should we target package versions that aren't stabilized on other architectures yet, so that we'll have an extended testing period before they'll

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Restabilizing MIPS

2010-11-11 Thread Stuart Longland
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 08:37:51PM -0500, Matt Turner wrote: On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Ryan Hill dirtye...@gentoo.org wrote: On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 18:00:00 -0500 Matt Turner matts...@gentoo.org wrote: Should we target package versions that aren't stabilized on other architectures

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Restabilizing MIPS

2010-11-11 Thread Matt Turner
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 9:55 PM, Stuart Longland redhat...@gentoo.org wrote: STMicroelectronics MIPS systems (Lemote, Gdium, etc) are becoming more common, and we should definitely do a better job supporting them. (I should mention that I've been loaned a Yeelong by Daniel Clark, of