Architecture promotion/demotion criteria

[Tom Callaway]

On 12/13/2010 02:10 PM, Josh Boyer wrote:
> The only criteria I can find for Primary and Secondary architectures
> are on the Architectures page where their definitions are found.  I
> was wondering if we have a set of criteria that we can define that
> would allow an architecture to be promoted from secondary to primary.
> I would expect that the actual decision to promote would be made by
> either FESCo or the Board.  Having a set of criteria that can be used
> as a checklist would help them make such decisions in the event that
> an architecture team were to ask for promotion.

Sounds sensible, perhaps we should start writing one.

> Similarly, I was wondering if we wanted to have a more concrete set of
> criteria in place for demotion as well.  I know that lack of downloads
> and the perceived cost/benefit ratio for ppc were the primary reasons
> for demotion a year and a half ago.  Do we have other things that
> could cause demotion as well?

Well, looking at the current primaries (x86/x86_64), I don't know that
they'd ever be demoted, but it wouldn't hurt to document some criteria
here too.

~tom

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