Alpha Core 3 is available

[Oliver Falk]

Am 2007-03-09 14:44, Dennis Gilmore schrieb:
> Once upon a time Friday 09 March 2007, Oliver Falk wrote:
>> Am 2007-03-09 13:52, Dennis Gilmore schrieb:
>>> Once upon a time Friday 09 March 2007, Oliver Falk wrote:
> 
>>>> And another thing. Will package maintainers be aware of the second
>>>> arches? Do they also receive notification 'bout failed builds on alpha,
>>>> ia64, sparc? If they don't want to fix bugs on the secondary arches,
>>>> they should exclude the arch, so the secondary arch builders don't get
>>>> overloaded with packages that will not build...
>>> Secondary arch teams will get failure notifications. If a build fails on
>>> a primary arch  it must fail on secondary archs.  if a build fails on a
>>> secondary arch then it will not affect the primary arch.
>> Sure. But what if it works fine on primary arch(s) and doesn't on
>> secondary arch? If the pkg maintainer isn't aware of this problem, he
>> will never exclude this arch and will - every time he requests a build -
>>   enqueue a package that will not work on the secondary arch... Or will
>> the secondary arch teams be allowed to exclude packages that do not
>> build? This means, that secondary arch teams must be (cvs commit)
>> allowed to every project...
> 
> for a package to be excluded on an arch it must be signed off by all arch 
> teams.  if it fails on an arch  the secondary arch team needs to fix it so 
> that it works.  they can ask the maintainer to help.  

OK. Got the rules :-)

-of