[CentOS-devel] Proposal: CentOS x86 SIG

Tue Feb 28 19:41:54 UTC 2023
Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com>

On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 6:27 PM Marcin Juszkiewicz
<marcin.juszkiewicz at linaro.org> wrote:
>
> W dniu 27.02.2023 o 22:54, Josh Boyer pisze:
> >> I also would not suggest calling this the x86 SIG, since that is
> >> misleading. Consider expanding to compiler flag analysis and tuning
>
> > I don't think it's misleading at all.
>
> My first thought was "Oh, no! Someone wants to revive 32-bit x86 back
> from grave!" so yes, it is misleading.

It's not.  The only way someone would be misled in that manner is if
they didn't actually read the proposal and just read the 'Subject:'
line of the email.  You clearly didn't just read the subject :)

> "Modernize x86-64", "Test architecture optimizations" are direction
> which I would go with name.

Those are good descriptions of purpose, but I wouldn't necessarily use
them for names.

josh