As other have pointed out these statistics are not rappresentative of
how mips is stopping developers to do work on their packages.
Also as stated in http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163795 Stephen
Becker alias "geoman" has promised us all to retire soon, so the
situation can only become worse for mips and much more breathable for
everyone else.
Ciaran McCreesh ha scritto:
It is widely perceived that Gentoo has a huge problem with slacker
archs cluttering up the tree and making maintainers' work harder.
Clearly, something needs to be done about this.
It's even more perceived that there are a couple of satellite people who
are working very strongly and sometimes (sadly) successfully to create
an un-healty environment for developers and users. Personally I would
mention you Caranm, beu and geoman.
I think the first step is to establish what all the problem
architectures are. We all know that mips is by far the worst offender,
but by how much? Rather than speculating wildly, I decided to make use
of adjutrix and wc to find out. So, here we have a table showing just
how much mips is a slacker arch:
Snipped a pure numeric comparison.
As expected, supporting minority archs is leading to tree-wide bloat
and huge initial rsync times for users. Clearly something has to be
done to protect Gentoo from those useless minority archs! I mean, how
many users do we *really* have using amd64 or x86?
Better protect gentoo and it's developer, especially the more active
ones from the gravitational waves of those few, very annoying
satellites. Then it will be possible to actually work to the rest.
P.S. yes the mispell of ciranm is childly intentional.
-- Francesco
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