On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 08:46 +0200, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: > If nobody on x86 is using a given package, is there a need to worry > > about marking it ~x86/x86? > > When I said 'All', I didn't mean to include stuff that's not in x86. > What I was trying to get at, was the idea that if the x86 arch team > is responsible for stable marking x86, then all packages that want > to go x86 need representation on the x86 arch team.
No, they don't. That's the idea of an arch team. You don't section off everything *again* as we already have herds for that. Instead, if you're on the x86 arch team (or sparc, or mips or anything, really) than you are responsible for the x86 keyword. All of it. Every package. Now, while there might be some internal "Hey, I use this all the time, so I'll keep up with it" types of things, there's also the "I don't use this package but can test it when needed" area that needs to be kept track of. While fundamentally different, I would say the games team works similarly to this. We have *lots* of packages that we personally don't use, but we maintain. The arch teams do the same thing. They test what is requested of them, and determine if it is ready for stabilization, or even just ~arch keywording. Sometimes, they determine a patch is needed, and add it or send it to the package maintainer for inclusion. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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