F20 System Wide Change: ARM as primary Architecture

[Peter Robinson]

On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 1:08 PM, David Tardon <dtardon at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 06:06:04PM +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
>> On 07/11/2013 02:04 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
>> >On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 3:56 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"
>> ><johannbg at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>Each sub-community ( be it spins be it various arch ) should need to provide
>> >>the necessary QA/Releng resources from their sub-community ( if no such
>> >>thing the relevant party needs to build one )
>> >That would be interesting and quite possibly very beneficial, however
>> >the transition from the current system when most people "don't need to
>> >care" would be a complex, longer-term cultural shift that shouldn't be
>> >(and doesn't really need to be) a blocker for the ARM feature.
>>
>> I dont argue that this should be a blocker for architectures quite
>> the opposite as far as I see it the only requirement for an
>> architecture to be come a "primary" ( thou arguably those are
>> outdated concepts as well ) is that all package currently build (
>> with the execption if they simply cannot work on a spesific
>> architecture ) and be available for the community to use as lego
>> bricks to shape and present to the world as they image in for that
>> relevant hw.
>
> It is only a few weeks you argued that we should drop all packages that
> are not "properly maintained".

Actually from an ARM perspective that would be a bonus as I spend a
lot more of my time fixing packages that are broken on mainline so
that I can see if they build on ARM which in 80% ish of the cases just
fixes the ARM build issues, in another 10% of cases updating the
package to the latest upstream release fixes the ARM build issues,
there's a percentage point or two where there's problems in the
packaging or using non distro build options like CFLAGS. The vast
majority of the packaging issues I deal with on ARM are not actually
ARM specific and often fix the other secondary arches as well!

Peter