Hey Levente, On 2025-07-01 17:57:37 (+0200), Levente Polyak wrote:
There's already a ton of community interest and effort around non-x86_64. There's plenty of low hanging fruits and clean patches that are easy to review, well contained, and good groundwork. So instead of waiting for the perfect day before starting, I'd like to open the door to small, clear, and non intrusive contributions under tightly scoped rules.
We should rather slowly and carefully build up compatibility now, than scramble once infra, hardware and tooling catches up. I propose the following guidelines as a first step towards implementing [RFC0032](https://rfc.archlinux.page/0032-arch-linux-ports/).
I agree!
### Merge-request indicator
All secondary architecture related merge-requests must be flagged with the new `pkg::ports` GitLab label. It'll help separate them from the usual requests and allow interested packagers and contributors to filter on them globally, to help out others.
Externals usually do not have the right to set a label on a merge request (I might be wrong here). To clarify: The bug wranglers/package maintainers should add this label, right?
I think this really hits the right balance, tight enough to avoid burnout, open enough to make progress and welcoming enough to motivate and start harvesting work from our community.
I'd obviously be happy to see this happen! If people in the team are generally fine with this, I think we should also create a dedicated news entry. Best, David -- https://sleepmap.de