Re: [gentoo-dev] Status of ppc and ppc64 teams.

[Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org>]

El lun, 04-08-2014 a las 18:03 -0400, Anthony G. Basile escribió:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> The ppc and ppc64 team members just had a meeting.  One of our main 
> issues was reconstituting those teams because they were in a state of 
> disorganization.  We've come up with a plan to move forward and address 
> Pacho's original concern about ppc/ppc64 falling behind. Here's what we 
> came up with:
> 
> 1. We elected jmorgan as the lead for both ppc and ppc64.  He's our 
> point person for any ppc/ppc64 related issues.
> 
> 2. If you are interested in helping out, whether you are a current team 
> member or not, please speak up!  There are people formally listed as 
> part of the ppc/ppc64 herds, but there's so much inactivity, we'd like 
> to know who's going to be active.  Of course we understand there is this 
> thing called "real life" but there is a difference between a little help 
> and no involvement at all.  We are considering culling the team members 
> accordingly.  (/me hides!)
> 
> 3. We are going to try to keep ppc and ppc64 going as it has been, with 
> the usual STABLEREQ and KEYWORDREQ.  We think we can do it without 
> overloading ourselves, especially if we get help.  We do have a shared 
> ppc64 system.  The bigger problem is actually KEYWORDREQ's so we are 
> going to request maintainers not ever drop ~ppc or ~ppc64 even when they 
> feel a major bump has occurred, eg a deep rewrite to a library.  We know 
> this is living dangerously but we'll going to make use of the community 
> in this regard --- either someone will bug us on a broken ~ppc/~ppc64 
> package, or we'll catch it at stabilization.
> 
> We'll try to move ppc/ppc64 chatter to those lists, but it was important 
> that everyone know where we're at.
> 

Then, you will finally try to keep current stable tree as big as
current :/? (I am referring only to stable tree, not about dropping
keywording entirely that wasn't ever the plan)