[arch-dev-public] Signoff policy for i686

[Allan McRae]

On 22/04/13 23:31, Dan McGee wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 5:45 AM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre at archlinux.de> wrote:
>> Am 22.04.2013 12:31, schrieb Allan McRae:
>>> So I would propose:
>>> 1) x86_64 signoff policy stays the same
>>> 2) i686 only requires one signoff
>>> 3) the one i686 signoff can be waived if there is a testsuite that passes
>>
>> Thanks for bringing this up to make it finally an official policy. This
>> might need some changes to archweb though.
> 
> The default "# of signoffs to require" would be easy enough to
> configure based on architecture. I'll spike this right now.
> 
> Allan, for point (3), I wonder if some more makepkg meta info would
> come in handy here? We now record checkdeps and makedeps, but also
> recording
> 
>     function = build
>     function = package
>     function = check
> 
> or something like that might be useful for this and other tools. A
> even more sophisticated approach might record the total time each of
> these steps took...food for thought.
> 

We could... or we could store the build logs that are always generated
when using makechrootpkg?  I think they are always useful to refer back to.

I don't think time spent on these is a useful metric.

Allan