Re: Release sprint results - team changes, auto-rm and arch status

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

On 2013-11-29 10:48, Svante Signell wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-11-28 at 21:04 +0100, Niels Thykier wrote:
>> In this new and exciting update from your Debian Release Team...
> 
>> kFreeBSD was a technology preview, and has not generated enough user
>> interest to bring in sufficient install base to continue in this
>> state.
>>
>> We will review this situation after 28th January 2014.
> 
>> s390 and Hurd will not be release architectures for Jessie. s390 was
>> replaced by s390x in Wheezy and this completes that transition.  As
>> for Hurd; we do not believe it is ready.  Particularly, we believe
>> that it does not surpass kFreeBSD in user interest or install base.
> 

Hi,

Sorry for the late reply to your request.

> Any chances of having Hurd as a technology preview, like kFreeBSD was
> for squeeze? A lot of development has been going on lately, and the
> number of committed people is higher than for many of the release
> architectures. Of course RC bugs for GNU/Hurd should not hinder
> transitions of packages to testing, as pointed out earlier.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 

I appreciate that hurd-i386 appears to be one of the architectures with
most active porters.  I would indeed love to see some of architectures
copy hurd-i386 in this regard.
  However, I am afraid, we are not going to accept Hurd as a technology
preview as we intend to remove the notation of "technology preview" in
Jessie.  Technology previews have not quite worked as we had hoped;
adding another one is unlikely to solve that problem.

~Niels