On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 18:38 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> You were asking me to test an app which I don't have the hardware for.
> What do you expect? "I can't test it but I'll mark it stable anyway"? I
> hope no-one is still seriously taking the whole "maintainer arch" thing
> seriously after having seen how some of the x86 developers behave...

They aren't "x86 developers" just because they're on an x86 anymore than
I'm an amd64 developer or a sparc developer because I'm on an amd64 or a
sparc.  After all, I do some of my "development" from my PPC box,
running MacOS X, but I'm neither a PPC, nor a MacOS developer.  Just
because someone is a developer and happens to use x86, don't try to make
this an "x86 versus $arch" problem, when it is really a "package
maintainer versus $arch" one.

That all being said, it would be nice if more people used arches other
than x86 every once in a while just so they could see how different
things can be.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux