Re: Maintainers, porters, and burden of porting [and 1 more messages]

2011-08-31 Thread Ian Jackson
Lucas Nussbaum writes (Maintainers, porters, and burden of porting): However, issues such as miscompilation or broken syscall or libc semantics are largely undetected. To illustrate this, you can have a look at #635126 (miscompilation on armel and sparc) and #639658 (forks+threads fun

Re: Maintainers, porters, and burden of porting [and 1 more messages]

2011-08-31 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 02:52:53PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: Let me make an alternative proposal: * The root cause bug in the BTS would be given a special tag (arch-blocker:arch or something). I will call such a bug which is open and has existed in this state for 30 days a ripe arch

Maintainers, porters, and burden of porting

2011-08-29 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
TL;DR: I think that we should have a discussion about the respective roles responsibilities of maintainers and porters with regard to porting. Release team, there's a question for you regarding ruby1.9.1 in the last paragraph. Hi, First, I'd like to say that I'm very proud of the