From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OSu3V-0006tZ-Hb for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 27 Jun 2010 15:46:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 947EBE0A95; Sun, 27 Jun 2010 15:45:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dev.gentooexperimental.org (dev.gentooexperimental.org [91.191.147.225]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11205E0A69 for ; Sun, 27 Jun 2010 15:45:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.2.100] (dslb-084-058-175-127.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.58.175.127]) by dev.gentooexperimental.org (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 79AD164646 for ; Sun, 27 Jun 2010 15:45:40 +0000 (Local time zone must be set--see zic manual page) Message-ID: <4C277224.8080107@gentoo.org> Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 17:45:40 +0200 From: Patrick Lauer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100626 Thunderbird/3.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy for late/slow stabilizations References: <20100627150445.GA19456@Eternity> In-Reply-To: <20100627150445.GA19456@Eternity> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 4dd33221-85c9-400b-b991-a914d510e234 X-Archives-Hash: 5144d6b9ff0d951c231ab06cd78d885e On 06/27/10 17:04, Markos Chandras wrote: [snip] > Whilst I do understand that these arches are understaffed and they can't keep > up with the increased stabilization load like x86/amd64 do, I still > think that slow stabilization leads to an obsolete stable tree which I > doesn't make sense to me after all. > > Thoughts? > I see two scenarios - either we get the "slow" arches enough cpu- and manpower, or we remove their stable keywords. If possible I think we should try to keep stable keywords. So how can we help? I'm not sure how I could help e.g. PPC - I don't have any hardware I can test on, and I'm not aware of remotely accessible dev boxen. So - how can we improve this situation?