Re: [gentoo-dev] Dropping ia64/ppc/sparc profiles to dev/exp

[Mart Raudsepp <leio@gentoo.org>]

Ühel kenal päeval, E, 08.05.2017 kell 22:08, kirjutas Mikle Kolyada:
> 
> 08.05.2017 21:55, Andreas K. Huettel пишет:
> > Am Montag, 8. Mai 2017, 12:49:32 CEST schrieb Mikle Kolyada:
> > > 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.
> > 
> > No objections against having many arches, but:
> > 
> > If an arch is keyworded / stable on more packages than that team
> > can 
> > reasonably take care of, that needs to be corrected somehow. 
> > 
> > The easiest solution is for the arch team to remove keywords until
> > they have a 
> > reasonable response time again. And if the arch team doesn't do
> > that by 
> > itself, well, ...
> > 
> > Having one-man teams block everybody else hurts Gentoo as a whole.
> > 
> 
> We have appropriate hardware if people wanna do the work, jut go &
> make
> things better :), I do not think someone from existing arch teams has
> something against that

We do not want to do the work, as the benefit ratio is bordering zero.
IA64 is dead hardware. PPC is dead (ppc != ppc64). SPARC, well, I guess
Fujitsu is trying, maybe they should provide a modern dev machine :D

Lets have the time of those just keeping it alive by semi-automated
scripted STABLEREQ fulfilling spend that time on alive hardware
instead.

Meanwhile I have various stuff sticking around due to lack of handling
keyword requests, including stuff that really needs cleaning up to
finish things being really fixed.
I actually see one person who seems to care about IA64 a but, but looks
like no-one is actioning arch testing anymore.