Re: [gentoo-dev] About current ppc/ppc64 status

[Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org>]

El sáb, 26-07-2014 a las 08:23 -0400, Rich Freeman escribió:
> On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 7:56 AM, Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >
> > I guess we will need to wait for the next Council to officially decide
> > to do this as it will be a big change for ppc* users :/ (I remember
> > their action was needed for the move to testing of some arches and the
> > "package-by-package" proposal for others)
> >
> 
> Honestly, it is best if the arch teams take the initiative on these
> sorts of things.  They're in the best place to figure out what their
> users' needs are.
> 
> The Council tends to get involved when the issue escalates to the
> point where it becomes a burden on maintainers.  It is always better
> for the arch teams to manage their own problems.
> 
> So, by all means put it on the Council agenda, but I'd strongly
> encourage the ppc arch team to weigh in with their opinion - if we can
> form a consensus on the list you don't even need the Council to vote.
> Not that we mind - it is just better to solve things collaboratively.
> 
> Rich
> 

Sure, at least for ppc teams I guess we could get it discussed by the
Council as blueness is in ppc teams per:
https://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/metastructure/herds/herds.xml#doc_chap89

Not sure about the other team members :/, I also see no one listed as
lead:
https://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/ppc/

For the other arch teams I guess I can start a new thread for them (in
summary, pointing them to this thread for the idea but suggesting them
to create the lists of packages to keep stable as they prefer). You are
probably not seeing so much escalation because we end up relying on ago
and zlogene to fix that... but that is not a long term solution. I am
mostly thinking on ia64 and sparc. Alpha looks to have recently fixed
lots of bugs (by klausman I think) and I am unsure about ARM as I guess
his problem is different (it's due they needing to test on many
different machines to get things stabilized, and that probably needs a
different discussion before :/)