Feedback on secondary architecute promotion requirements draft

[Matthew Garrett]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 01:41:58PM -0700, Brendan Conoboy wrote:

> Basically, I think the guidelines MJG has put together are good
> principles; they just need some procedural blanks filled in so SA
> teams know how to apply them and communicate with the greater Fedora
> community.

I think a better way to think about this might be lie the packaging 
guidelines - they provide a set of technical constraints, but they don't 
tell you how to be part of the packaging community. I see SAs in the 
same kind of way. Secondary architecture maintainers should be active 
members of the greater Fedora community. You should be talking about 
what you're doing, providing regular status updates on devel@, actively 
involving yourself in other technical discussions to make sure that 
decisions aren't made without consideration of your constraints. 
Basically, behave as if you're a primary architecture.

If you manage that then I think most of the problems you're worried 
about go away. It'll be obvious to everyone whether or not you're ready 
to be a primary architecture at any given point. Don't worry about the 
details. Just be part of Fedora.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org