Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 12:17:59 +0100, David Schmitt
<david@schmitt.edv-bus.at> wrote:
>On Monday 14 March 2005 16:23, John Goerzen wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 12:47:58PM +0100, Julien BLACHE wrote:
>> > Basically, you're just leaving a number of Debian users out in the
>> > cold. Users who choose Debian because we were the only distribution
>> > out of there to provide serious support for the architectures they
>> > care for, for various reasons.
>>
>> Indeed. I am one such user. I have always felt fortunate that I don't
>> have to really care what architecture a machine is, because "of course
>> it runs Debian". I have run Debian on Alpha, x86, amd64, powerpc, and
>> sarc systems, both as a desktop and a server environment on most of
>> these.
>
>And if the security team is not able to support those arches as-is, someone
>will have to step up and do the work.
That someone will have to be allowed in. Which is the problem for the
majority of our core teams. They are very protective about their turf.
Greetings
Marc
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