On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 12:33:24AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@debian.org> writes:
>
> > On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 10:57:47PM +0000, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> >> Clint Byrum <cbyrum <at> spamaps.org> writes:
> >> > Now, can someone please tell me how messages like the one below, and
> >> > others, aren't indicative that debian should drop s390, mipsel, and
> >> > maybe hppa from the list of architectures? How about we release for
> >> > i386, sparc, and powerpc, and let the others release on their own
> >> > schedule? This business of supporting 11 architectures and making sure
> >> > they're all 100% right before releasing is just about the worst idea
> >> > ever.
> >>
> >> Still, the hours we maste on fixing, building, maintaining, ... code on
> >> unused platforms is hysterical waste of resources. Resources we don't
> >> really have.
> >
> > I'd like to see your numbers on how many manhours have been wasted in the
> > past, say, 6 months on fixing code on unused platforms which would have gone
> > into other things had those architectures not been in Debian.
> >
> > - Matt
>
> Not to mention that i386 is the most non working architecture of them
> all when it comes to the buildd and m68k probably the one with the
> fastest responce time.
>
> And how does having gtk not being blocked for a few days by a buildd
> get ftp-master to implement t-p-u and testing-security any faster,
> which is what we've all been waiting for the last 6+ month.
>
> Not to mention the number of arm, mips, mipsel, m68k, hppa, alpha,
> ia64, s390 developers that would drop away starting their own
> distribution depriving Debian of manpower. A lot of bugs are found by
> those extra architectures Debian supports and also fixed by their
> porters. Nothing better to find bugs than a large variety.
Isn't that what ESR said about the bazaar: the more eyes, the faster bugs
get squished! In this case, the more arch differences, the more bugs
that will be found, too!
-Kev
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