Architecture promotion/demotion criteria
Hi All,
I've been following the efforts of the other architecture teams
towards building F13/F14 while bumbling along trying to get ppc back
up and running. This has gotten me thinking of some of the criteria
surrounding primary and secondary architectures. Or, to be frank,
lack thereof.
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.
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?
josh