On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 12:49 PM, Mikle Kolyada <zlog...@gentoo.org> wrote: > Against. Do not touch things you are not working on, council has already > dropped m68k s390 and sh to exp few years ago. Now we have a big mess > there and only, while ia64 sparc and co have slow but progress and > mature enough stable profiles.
Obviously we should prevent big messes from happening. But it's a mistake that things I don't work on don't affect me -- work left over by lagging arch teams can affect me in many ways, in terms of having to keep older versions of my packages working and in the tree, and having to keep track of many more KEYWORDREQs and STABLEREQs. To me it's likely that the pace of stabilization for everyone is affected by the slower arches, in the sense that maintainers are less likely to stabilize newer versions if they see that arches can't keep up with previous requests. This means that even stable amd64 users are affected to some extent by ppc being slow to stabilize. Cheers, Dirkjan
