Re: [gentoo-dev] new developers' keyword requests

[Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>]

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 10:51 AM, Jeroen Roovers <jer@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Perhaps it's a good idea to add a section to the devmanual about adding
> new keywords to packages.
>
> Recruits in particular might benefit from some background on what
> keywording means and when it should be done, especially before they
> start maintaining packages and then realise their packages are so
> beautiful that they positively *deserve* to have some random keywords
> added. This is not productive.
>
> The way it works is that users of
> specific architectures find that a package works for them on their
> systems (which have enough resources and have the correct interfaces for
> that particular program to be used conveniently, and so on), and that
> they then request that their architecture keyword be added. What
> doesn't work is having a handful of keywords on a package that nobody
> cares about who actually uses the architectures in question.
>
> Since over the years the Random Keyword Requests happen a *lot* right
> after recruitment, it might even be useful to ask about this in the
> quizzes. (The answer: your time is better spent fixing actual bugs.
> bumping versions, adding features and maintaining a stable branch,
> rather than raising the architecture count for your packages for no
> adequately explored reason.)
>
>
> Kind regards,
>      jer
>

Both ideas (devmanual update + quiz question) seem good to me.