RFC: Primary architecture promotion requirements

[Jesse Keating]

On 3/21/12 6:52 AM, Peter Jones wrote:
> On 03/21/2012 09:21 AM, Josh Boyer wrote:
>
>> Except when people are forced to look at it, their solution was often
>> ExcludeArch for PPC. As I said in the other thread, you cannot force
>> people to care about an architecture they don't know or want to learn.
>
> That suggests we need a FTBFS-like nightly test that lets us know about
> new,
> unexpected ExcludeArches in the distro.
>

This sounds like the perfect use case for a SCM feature I haven't had 
the time to work on.

If all commit diffs are sent to a message bus by way of a git hook, then 
one consumer on the bus could be canning for additions of ExcludeArch. 
When these are discovered a bug could be filed automatically, or some 
group would get notified, basically something would happen, and we 
wouldn't depend on a human noticing the change or following policy to 
file a bug.

In the short term, if this is something we see high value in tracking, 
we can just add another git hook to do this directly, rather than 
relying on a message bus.

-- 
Jesse Keating
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