Re: [gentoo-dev] games-emulation/jgemu keywording request

[Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>]

On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 4:11 PM orbea <orbea@riseup.net> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 11 Sep 2023 20:38:48 +0100
> Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> > orbea <orbea@riseup.net> writes:
> >
> > > On Mon, 11 Sep 2023 19:18:45 +0100
> > > Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > >
> > >> orbea <orbea@riseup.net> writes:
> > >>
> > >> > Hi,
> > >> >
> > >> > Several months ago I made this issue for keywording the
> > >> > games-emulation/jgemu meta package which is a collection of
> > >> > minimal emulators for the command-line games-emulation/jgrf
> > >> > frontend with a focus on accuracy.
> > >> >
> > >>
> > >> You've not populated the package list and no arches are CC'd, but
> > >> we don't keyword things for no reason either on (very) niche
> > >> arches.
> > >>
> > >> Please select a reasonable set of architectures.
> > >>
> > >> > https://bugs.gentoo.org/891201
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > > Apologies, I wasn't aware I needed to do that and in retrospect I
> > > should of thought of it. Just to be clear you mean add an issue for
> > > each issue and then use them as blockers for the
> > > games-emulation/jgemu issue?
> >
> > No, one bug is okay if you populate the package list field in
> > Bugzilla.
> >
> > Just keep in mind that keywording isn't the same as upstreaam CI
> > either and we generally want to only keyword on arches where someone
> > is likely to use it.
> >
>
> Apologies, I now understand what you meant...
>
> The goal is to hopefully entice real world testers on systems that
> jgemu may be used. This is not something a CI would be able to
> accomplish.

This is not an appropriate use of Gentoo arch testing. We keyword
things based on user demand, not to satisfy the urges of upstream
developers.