[gentoo-dev] Please stop requesting keywords for arches you don't have
Hi guys, Since there is always new people joining Gentoo, many of these people tend to open keyword requests for a lot of arches on a package they maintain or they are interested in until me or any other member of alternative arches scream to them :) . As a member of many of the alternative arches(alpha/arm/ia64/s390/sh/sparc) and considering the members of the other arches(hppa, mips, ppc*) also concur with me, i'd like to remind that opening such bugs is not fun for us. Why? Simple, we're mainly undermanned arches, some of them are slow, some of them have more basic problems(latest glibc breaks system and stuff), we have a small userbase compared with amd64/x86, and we(i'm talking about my arches now) prefer to keyword something if an user of our arch has tested it(which saves us some work) and it's going to be useful for him or for new users of that arch(for example the ARM architecture). If we keyword your package and maybe later stabilize it, you're going to be mad at us when you request a new version marked stable, or when you need rekeywording, because we'll be slow in doing so. Just file bugs when a package is going to be a dependency of a package we already have keyworded. Also, *STOP* dropping keywords when a new dependency isn't keyworded without filing a bug for that architecture. Thank you
Re: [gentoo-dev] Please stop requesting keywords for arches you don't have
Raúl Porcel wrote: Hi guys, Since there is always new people joining Gentoo, many of these people tend to open keyword requests for a lot of arches on a package they maintain or they are interested in until me or any other member of alternative arches scream to them :) . Seems like you should come up with a new quiz question. Regards, Petteri signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] Please stop requesting keywords for arches you don't have
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Raúl Porcelarmi...@gentoo.org wrote: Also, *STOP* dropping keywords when a new dependency isn't keyworded without filing a bug for that architecture. Towards reducing arch load, I say that new packages should not be added to ~arch if some of it's new dependencies are not keyworded. Add p.masked or keyword-less till dependencies are keyworded. *Then* add to ~arch carrying over keywords. Although I'm not an arch tester myself, I empathize with the huge amount of work they have to do. This will reduce workload for arch teams greatly Example: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=268529 -- libsoup keywords dropped because of new dependency libproxy. This led to a cascade of packages with dropped keywords -- http://bugs.gentoo.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=268529 This could've been worse, and likely will be worse with GNOME 2.28 and 3.0 :) -- ~Nirbheek Chauhan
