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

["Anthony G. Basile" <basile@opensource.dyc.edu>]

On 08/16/14 05:32, Pacho Ramos wrote:
> 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)
>

ago says he'll take care of the stablereq.  I've been concentrating on 
keywording.  I got about 10 keywordreqs done in the past week (mostly 
python and ruby stuff), down to about 63 and 67 bugs for ppc and ppc64 
respectively.

So that's the plan.  If anyone else besides ago would have said they can 
handle it, I would not have believed them.

-- 
Anthony G. Basile, Ph. D.
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D'Youville College
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