Re: [PATCH] Convert SPARC to LRA

[Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>]

On 09/29/2015 07:19 AM, Oleg Endo wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-09-28 at 15:28 -0500, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
>
> > We can at least change the default to LRA, so new ports get it unless
> > they like to hurt themselves.
> >
> > I don't think it makes sense to keep reload around *just* for the ports
> > that are in "maintenance mode": by the time we are down to *just* those
> > ports, it makes more sense to relabel them as "unmaintained".
>
> Just for my understanding ... what's the definition of "maintenance
> mode" or "unmaintained"?
I'm not sure there's any formal definition.

If the port isn't getting tested, bugs aren't getting fixed, fails to 
build, etc then it's probably a good bet you could put it into the 
unmaintained bucket.

If the port does get occasional fixes (primarily driven by BZs), but not 
getting updated on a regular basis (such as conversion to LRA, 
conversion to RTL prologue/epilogue, etc), may be only getting 
occasional testing, etc.  Then it's probably fair to call it in 
maintenance mode.  A great example IMHO would be the m68k.

I would say we probably have many ports in maintenance mode right now. 
Not sure if any are in the unmaintained mode with perhaps the exception 
of interix.

jeff