Re: Results of the porter roll call (Was: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing)
Hello, all.
I am not currently a porter but I would like to be one for the s390x
architecture.
I am familiar with zSeries system programming and have a lot of
experience in running Linux in virtual environments, mostly z/VM on
large IBM processors.. I use Linux for 11 year, family with cross
compiling tool chain.
I am not a DD/DM. and I am somewhat surprised not to see Philiip Kern
(pkern@debian.org) on the list.
DJ
On 10/02/2013 02:45 AM, Niels Thykier wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The final results are in:
>
> Summary table:
> Arch || DDs || NMs/DMs || Other || Total
> ---------------++-----++---------++-------++------
> armel || 3 || 0 || 1 || 4
> armhf || 3 || 1 || 2 || 6
> hurd-i386 || 5 || 0 || 3 || 8
> ia64 || *0* || 0 || 3 || 3
> kfreebsd-amd64 || 4 || 0 || 2 || 6
> kfreebsd-i386 || 4 || 0 || 2 || 6
> mips || 1 || 0 || 1 || 2
> mipsel || 1 || 0 || 1 || 2
> powerpc[1] || (1) || 0 || 2 || 2.5?
> s390x || *0* || 0 || 0 || *0*
> sparc[2] || 1 || 0 || 0 || 1
>
> [1] The (1) and .5 is from a "I am not primarily a porter [...]"-remark,
> so I wasn't sure how to count it.
>
> [2] By the looks of it, if sparc was replaced by sparc64, we could be
> looking at 3 in the "Other"-column rather than 0.
>
> NMs/DMs include DMs and people currently in NM process. The "Other"
> column may include people who said they would like to become porters
> (but would need to be introduced to the job) and thus may imply some
> active recruiting from the current porters. This is at least true for
> hurd-i386.
>
>
>
> The current policy says that we require "5 developers" (i.e. DDs) for
> release architectures[AP], so based on that only amd64, i386 and
> hurd-i386 would pass this requirement. It is quite possible we need to
> revise that requirement, but most of the architectures would (still) do
> well to attract a few more (DD) porters.
> I have attached a file with my notes of who are behind those numbers.
> If your name is missing or you believe I have miscounted something[CD]
> for an architecture listed in the table above, please reply to this
> email *promptly* (CC'ing me explicitly is fine) with your concerns or
> corrections.
>
> At this time, I have *not* updated the arch qualification table yet. I
> will do that in a couple of days. We will also follow up on this in the
> next bits from the release team.
>
> ~Niels
>
> [AP] http://release.debian.org/jessie/arch_policy.html
>
> [CD] I may (or may not) have been caffeine-deprived when I did the
> counting. You are free to make assumptions about whether that has
> affected my ability to do addic^Htion or parsing your email(s) properly.
>
--
Dave Jones
V/Soft Software
www.vsoft-software.com
Houston, TX
281.578.7544
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