Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2013-09-10

[Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org>]

El jue, 29-08-2013 a las 08:22 -0700, Jack Morgan escribió:
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> This is a confusing. What is the real problem you are trying to solve
> here? Stable @system but not having to worry about keywording anything
> else.. like a desktop (gnome, KDE)?
> 

At least from a gnome perspective, we are having some important delays
with some arches:
- Pending keyword requests:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=351931 -> sh and sparc
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=478254 -> alpha,arm, ia64, ppc*,
sparc
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=478256 -> the same
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=387959 -> sh, sparc
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=469722 -> s390 (this is probably
the worst case as they are then having a buggy old version)
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=469982 -> s390
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=471752 -> alpha, ia64, ppc*,
sparc
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=472510 -> s390
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=476710 -> alpha, arm, ia64,
ppc*, sh, sparc, x86
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=478082 -> alpha, sparc
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=466560 -> s390

In summary, s390 looks to be in worst state (as its missing keywording
affects even core packages like gtk+, pango...). But the situation is
also difficult for other arches like alpha and sparc because Agostino
cannot test them at runtime and, then, we think it's not safe to keyword
systemd on them without a runtime check, causing to lose Gnome 3.8
support for its "core" components.

- Stabilizations:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=458984 -> m68k

If anyone could look at them, nice, but, from my point of view (not sure
what occurs outside gnome scope), at least m68k and s390 have important
problems to keyword/stabilize soon enough. And also noticed the
important problem of arches like alpha and sparc that are hard to test
at runtime :|

But this is only my impression, maybe some of this arches are more
active in other Gentoo areas.