For your consideration: Secondary Architectures in Fedora

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

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).
> 
> Otherwise, why bother making a distinction at all?

Precisely.

Now, when a build fails on a secondary arch, it won't be silent. Emails
will go out to the architecture team, as well as a daily summary to
fedora-devel-list on a per-arch basis (e.g. I built these packages
sucessfully, I tried to build these, but they failed).

~spot