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

["Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@gentoo.org>]

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.

-- 
Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D.
Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened]
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