RFC: Primary architecture promotion requirements

[Josh Boyer]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 7:39 AM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 10:41:33AM +0100, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 10:58 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
>> > I think you're looking at this in slightly the wrong way. Being a
>> > primary architecture isn't meant to be a benefit to the port - it's
>> > meant to be a benefit to Fedora. Adding arm to the PA list means you'll
>> > have to take on a huge number of additional responsibilities, deal with
>> > more people who are unhappy about the impact upon their packages and so
>> > on. You get very little out of it except that there's more people to
>> > tell you that something's broken.
>>
>> I don't think this is true: On a primary architecture, every package
>> maintainer is be expected to handle their own packages; this should
>> actually significantly decrease the load on the "architecture
>> maintainers".
>
> The expectation would be that the architecture maintainers have fixed
> everything before moving to being a primary architecture, so this should
> only be an issue if maintainers or upstream manage to come up with new
> breakage. But yes, it forces people to care about something they might
> previously have ignored, so I guess that's an advantage.

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's not to say there weren't a large number of people that _did_
try and fix things.  It's just not a clear cut "this arch is primary
so package maintainers will fix arch issues".

josh