Hi, It's time of year again to consider moving a few arches to dev-only status.
I propose the following arches to lose their stable keywords - s390 - sh - ia64 - alpha - m68k - sparc The manpower on these arches is below acceptable levels and they often block stabilizations for many months. This also causes troubles to developers trying to get rid of old versions of packages. I am CC'ing Mike and on this to draw his attention since he seems to be doing stabilizations and keywording on a few of them. Moreover, Agostino is also doing a lot of work on these arches. Consider what will happen if he ever goes MIA or decides to retire ;) We will probably end up with a pile of stabilization bugs like the good old days. In my opinion, having these arches be ~arch only, will improve the overall user experience since the arch teams will only have to test a single tree. It will also help developers get rid of old ebuilds and keep the portage tree healthy and reasonably updated. If I get enough positive feedback on this, I will propose this in the next Council's agenda. -- Regards, Markos Chandras - Gentoo Linux Developer http://dev.gentoo.org/~hwoarang
