F20 System Wide Change: ARM as primary Architecture

[Brendan Conoboy]

On 07/11/2013 11:22 AM, Peter Jones wrote:
> The point of this isn't just that it was broken, though - the concern
> here is that the test suite said it was not working.  What else isn't
> working because nobody has even looked?  What's worrisome here is not
> merely that a major security feature wasn't working.  While that is
> troubling, the fact of the matter is that people *not* on your team
> thought it wasn't working, and assumed that you knew.  The test suite
> is giving failing results.  That's not usually an indicator of high
> quality or success.

Yes, this is a serious issue for any architecture.  It's more of a 
people problem than technical though.  We can solve it for gcc on ARM 
specifically, but as a general case I don't have an easy answer.

> The worry isn't that there's one thing here or there that doesn't work -
> the worry is that there are relatively major Fedora features that we've
> advertised in big letters in the relatively recent past that simply
> don't work because nobody has paid any attention to whether or not they
> work.

Hmm.

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Brendan Conoboy / Red Hat, Inc. / blc at redhat.com