RFC: Page size on PPC/PPC64 builders

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Sunday, 02 March 2008 at 21:43, David Woodhouse wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 2008-03-02 at 18:04 +0100, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> > Packagers' lack of time or laziness is not a good excuse. If they
> > can't fix it, they should seek help either from the PPC SIG or
> > upstream.
> 
> I'm inclined to agree, but I'm concerned about how realistic that is,
> especially since we encourage people to take responsibility for packages
> when they don't even understand the language they're written in and
> _can't_ fix things.

IMHO every packager should know a bit of C (or whatever language her/his
package is written in).

> I already see people who should know better complaining about how
> building for PPC is 'painful' -- and that kind of attitude has
> contributed to the idiocy of letting 'secondary architecture' builds
> fail _without_ aborting the main build. I don't want to make matters
> worse by increasing the perception that building for PPC is hard.
> 
> If Fedora is after quantity instead of quality in packages and
> packagers, then I don't want to make life harder for the PPC folks just
> because we think that's a bad choice of priority. I'll tilt at one
> windmill at a time, thank you.

Hm. I was under the impression that we care about the quality. This, for
me, was the selling point of Fedora.

Regards,
R.

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