From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K392C-000318-GT for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:21:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 38660E03F5; Mon, 2 Jun 2008 12:21:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from yw-out-1718.google.com (yw-out-1718.google.com [74.125.46.155]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FD9AE03F5 for ; Mon, 2 Jun 2008 12:21:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yw-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 5so404820ywm.46 for ; Mon, 02 Jun 2008 05:21:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.151.42.18 with SMTP id u18mr9224499ybj.175.1212409265670; Mon, 02 Jun 2008 05:21:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.150.202.13 with HTTP; Mon, 2 Jun 2008 05:21:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 05:21:05 -0700 From: "Alec Warner" Sender: antarus@scriptkitty.com To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for June In-Reply-To: <4843695D.9040003@gentoo.org> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080601093002.43105672F6@smtp.gentoo.org> <4842DF48.4040707@gentoo.org> <20080601155458.6b4edaf2@halo.dirtyepic.sk.ca> <4843695D.9040003@gentoo.org> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 13cb87a40bbb7a49 X-Archives-Salt: a4db8c18-301b-4ba7-ab10-186fb1c5d66a X-Archives-Hash: 7e8925b234eaa056709b11ac9dfdfc7f On 6/1/08, Richard Freeman wrote: > Ryan Hill wrote: > > > On Sun, 01 Jun 2008 19:41:28 +0200 > > Ra=FAl Porcel wrote: > > > > > > > IMHO the packages should be keyworded if an arch team member or an > > > user of that arch requests it. Keywording something if an user of > > > said arch doesn't request it, is a waste of resources. > > > > > > > How is making things available to your users a waste of resources? > > Anyways, if you're so far behind that you don't think you can manage > > keywording another package then just say so and deny the request. > > > > > > ++ > > I'd like to comment that in theory a package maintainer should have a > decent idea of what archs a particular package should work on. I can't > imagine that the vmware maintainers are going to be sending keyword reque= sts > to the sparc team... Contrary to your theory I think in the past this has proven to be false; however I am not sure how often this was the case (eg. were just a few maintainers overzeallous or did we have widespread problems.) > > -- > gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list