Re: Let me know if you're looking for PowerPC parts
On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 09:11:31AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 21:12 +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 04:16:20PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 15:33 +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > i.e. to discuss technical issues of the Debian powerpc port. Now this
> > > > > has disappeared almost completely. I can hardly remember the last time a
> > > > > query from another part of the Debian project about the status of a
> > > > > certain aspect of the powerpc port was actually answered on this list,
> > > > > most likely because a large portion if not most of the list traffic is
> > > > > OT these days, and I think this is very bad. YMMV.
> > > >
> > > > Maybe this is because there are so few powerpc porters left in debian ? Or
> > > > those who used to be porters got interests in something else, leaving only me,
> > > > which kind of burned out earlier this year ?
> > >
> > > I'm not talking about d-i. Someone's obviously taking care of the
> > > autobuilders etc., but these things aren't discussed on this list
> > > anymore, as they used to be.
> >
> > I am not speaking about only d-i either. Who is there to follow on general
> > powerpc issues ?
>
> Not sure, which is kind of my point.
>
> > Most people who used to be active are doing other stuff, and there is
> > very little colaboration going on between the rest of us, and this is
> > not only because of the traffic of this little.
>
> Not only, sure, but I suspect the fact this list no longer is the
> central place for Debian powerpc port collaboration it used to be is a
> significant part of it.
No, the significnt part is that the debian powerpc collaboration kind of
disintegrated, as all porters either left, like Hartmut, or engaged in other
areas, like you for X, and are less powerpc specific.
We need to rebuild the community, get new and fresh blood, and have some
people with an overview of all the problems and TODO items, or simply a
coordinated wiki page (andsomeone wiki-friendly who can coordinate it or
something) to hold the port status, and list people working on different
areas, and what is needed and so on.
Who would be in such an effort ? Would you ? Would any of those who kind of
replaced me as d-i 'porters' ?
/me wonders if in the wake of the freescale/ibm/power.org rebranding of all
the powerpc line, we should rename the list to debian-power :)
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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