[CentOS-devel] [Proposal] Adding an alternative architecture to your SIG.

Hello Thomas,

On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 4:50 PM, Thomas Oulevey <thomas.oulevey at cern.ch> wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> We are able to build packages for new arches we need to propose a
> workflow to support a new architecture in a SIG project.
>
> Two use cases :
>
> A/ It's an official architecture.
> -> Sources *must* build for all enable architecture. SIGs are
> responsible to fix issues for all arches.
> -> We provide a script that will rebuild existing arch specific packages
> (scratch build + merge scratch build) if needed. (Note: In case only
> newer version of your project supports this arch, this step may be skipped.)
>
> => "On Monday SIG board decided to enable aarch64, and then all new
> tasks must build for aarch64."
>
> B/ It's a proposed architecture.
> -> Some person in a SIG would like to work on add an architecture and do
> the porting work but SIG would not support it as a first citizen until
> it gets traction.
> -> Source will be build on a separate tag (a different disttag will be used)
> -> We provide a script that rebuild srpm (NV must remain the same as
> original SIG package) and merge the build when architecture is promoted
> as an "official architecture".
>
> => "Work on this architecture support and when ready send a proposal to
> promote your working port to the SIG board"
>
> I think that supporting the two use cases will benefit the community,
> and allow less common architectures to be supported faster.
>
> At koji level, these modifications can be done per SIG *project*.

#2 would be awesome.
Both of these would be useful to the Storage SIG - at least the Ceph part.

François