From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1II89C-0004p1-GU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 06 Aug 2007 19:21:46 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l76JKicA029121; Mon, 6 Aug 2007 19:20:44 GMT Received: from mail.twi-31o2.org (c-24-6-168-204.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [24.6.168.204]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l76JHaJP024689 for ; Mon, 6 Aug 2007 19:17:37 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.twi-31o2.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08D8E248F3C for ; Mon, 6 Aug 2007 15:05:21 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at twi-31o2.org Received: from mail.twi-31o2.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (gravity.twi-31o2.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id gQsVdony0n6C for ; Mon, 6 Aug 2007 15:04:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.100.29] (dsl211-165-131.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net [74.211.165.131]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.twi-31o2.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08A6E248E6F for ; Mon, 6 Aug 2007 15:04:28 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Some ideas on how to reduce territoriality From: Chris Gianelloni To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <46B3D29F.5030301@gentoo.org> References: <1186178767.8470.47.camel@inertia.twi-31o2.org> <46B3D29F.5030301@gentoo.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-2aK1WZ8BRGWdogaZ2leK" Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 12:16:22 -0700 Message-Id: <1186427782.8562.2.camel@inertia.twi-31o2.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.1 X-Archives-Salt: ee9e3af9-ac19-49ff-808d-999cdb14847c X-Archives-Hash: 189c11f253b66b048399d780741f0501 --=-2aK1WZ8BRGWdogaZ2leK Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 21:13 -0400, Luis Francisco Araujo wrote: > > - arch-specific patches/dependencies - If someone is requesting KEYWORD > > changes on a package and it requires a patch or additional dependencies > > for your architecture, you are not only permitted, but really are > > required to make the necessary changes to add support for your > > architecture. >=20 > I am not sure about this last one ... what if for example this patch is > only for supporting a special option of the package for that > architecture, but the maintainer of the package found out that such a > patch is unnecessary and/or will cause other kind of problems in the > package, therefore preferring avoiding such a patch ... or he just > wouldn't like to apply the patch for X or Y; or even further, he just > wouldn't like to have such a package available for that architecture > just yet for Z or W. The vagueness made it kinda hard to follow, but if a maintainer doesn't want their package on an architecture, they need to mark it -arch for that architecture. As it is right now, any arch team can add ~arch without maintainer consent. > The stabilization idea sounds good and it could free maintainers from > filing similar bugs over and over ; but wouldn't this be more and harder > work for arch teams?. For example, they should carefully track the > history of all the packages to know when and if they should stabilize it > yet. Huh? It's simple. The maintainer says "stabilize foo-1.2-r1" which gives a minimum level that all arches should be using. If foo-1.2-r2 comes out, it is up to the arch team to decide if/when to stabilize it, *unless* the maintainer requests a newer version/revision. Basically, the maintainer sets the minimum level they would like stable. --=20 Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee Gentoo Foundation --=-2aK1WZ8BRGWdogaZ2leK Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBGt3OGkT4lNIS36YERArzeAKCcs/2nsfw4psrBDT0uXY2FV5Sn/wCgiavc L3ym2q8mR1XqWppvu8D4ITk= =hzI5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-2aK1WZ8BRGWdogaZ2leK-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list