David Woodhouse (dwmw2(a)infradead.org) said:
On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 16:00 -0700, Chris Weyl wrote:
> In other words, by only failing a build when a primary arch fails, we
> enable the inclusion of many other architectures for those who care
> about them, without imposing additional burdens on all maintainers
> (who may not care about them).
We have that already. The existing policy, allowing ExcludeArch but
requiring a bug to be filed, works extremely well.
That policy was for *PRIMARY* arches. We are talking about secondary
arches here; the arches that Fedora, as a general project, does not
feel is within its release mantra to support, but wants to maintain
the ability for communities to support if they so desire. The
conditions will *and should* be different.
Fedora is about getting new open-source technology into the hands of
users and developers. It's not about insisting a community help people
support their particular CPU fetishes for little return.
Bill