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
