On 15.06.2007 18:04, Axel Thimm wrote: > On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 11:43:07AM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: >> >> On 14.06.2007 19:40, Christopher Blizzard wrote: >> >>> Primary arch definition: need to make sure that part of the >>> responsibility is that individual maintainers are required to make sure >>> their stuff builds on all those arches. >> -1 -- Fedora Extras had lots of maintainers that are no programmers >> and/or have only access to i386. > Don't they have access to *build* their package through koji by > definition on all archs? That's a help only for "have only access to i386" people; and even then it's often a lot easier to do it on a machine you have direct access to then to until builds_on_ppc() do look at the code write a patch to fix a issue commit a patch to CVS tag build wait done >> Those maintainers are Fedora maintainers these days. Saying they are >> "required to make sure their stuff builds on all primary arches" would >> increase the burden on the maintainer drastically. I think that's >> totally the wrong way forward. >> >> Further: if I would read something like that before becoming a >> contributor I'd say "hey, that's hard stuff; I know my knowledge is not >> enough to do that should I even run into a situation where something >> doesn't build on PPC; well, then I won't become a contributor for >> Fedora. Have fun guys, bye". > But pcc is not a primary arch, or is it? There is not final decision yet (or I missed it), but afaics it looks like PPC will be one at least for the near future until the secondary arch stuff works fine for another arch. > [...] > I would go as far as to suggest test boxes on i386/x86_64 > (e.g. primary archs) for packages to test their koji builds on in case > they want to, but don't have the archs available otherwise. Sure, some > packages like the kernel and glibc can't just be tested on a rmeote > machine, but I hope the maintainers of these packages have access to > more than just an i386 system ;=) Yes, something like that would be nice to have; but I'm not sure if other stuff would be more important (automatic tests for example). CU thl -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
