On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 11:34:41AM +0100, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: > As some of you know the mips port has some problems keeping up. Daniel Stone and I have been trying for months to get feedback regarding xfree86 > 4.3.0-0pre1v1 on mips, and we are always met with stony silence. > Everything went well with that machine - until we directed the request to > debian-admin to get wanna-build access for mips. The request was rejected > with the following reasons (to my knowledge): > - another machine is in the works Which, of course, will never go down, suffer hardware failure, or have its hosting site suffer a power outage or fire. > - we don´t need your machine And we never will; see above. > - you don´t have any knowledge about mips, so the machine wouldn´t be of any > help at all. It's not like you're an experienced buildd admin, and it's vitally important that people who aren't already experts at administrating mips buildds not gain that expertise. > As a result and a sort of protest, I´ll stopped my m68k buildd, because I > don´t know m68k that much to be of any help for this port anymore. Therefore > my m68k isn´t needed anymore as my offered mips machine isn´t needed for the > mips port or the Debian project at all. I'm not sure I agree with your decision, but I do think I understand your frustration. Can I ask why it is such a disaster to have an alternate or standby buildd for the mips architecture? -- G. Branden Robinson | Kissing girls is a goodness. It is Debian GNU/Linux | a growing closer. It beats the branden@debian.org | hell out of card games. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Robert Heinlein
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