Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing

[John David Anglin <dave.anglin@bell.net>]

Hi,

Although I'm not a DD/DM, I currently do the majority of the Debian  
unstable package
builds for parisc.  As noted by Helge, these are available at www.parisc-linux.org 
.  While
not fully complete, the archive contains several thousand packages  
that are constantly
being updated.  We are close to restarting a parisc buildd...

I perform a small amount of porting (e.g., webkitgtk, qt4-x11, ...)  
and bug reporting.
This has reduced the number of packages which need changes to build on  
parisc.

I'm also a parisc GCC and binutils maintainer.  In the past year or  
so, I spent a significant
amount of time working on parisc cache related issues in the linux  
kernel.

I support this activity with three parisc servers and one workstation.

In my spare time, I do embedded software and electronic design.

Regards,
John David (Dave) Anglin

On 5-Sep-13, at 5:21 PM, Helge Deller wrote:

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> Hello,
>
> I am not currently a porter but I would like to be one for the
> architecture parisc/hppa.
>
> I currently have lots of parisc hardware (5 workstations and 4  
> servers),
> all currently running debian unstable from our own debian repository
> at www.parisc-linux.org.
>
> My involvement for debian-parisc so far:
> - - I was one of the initiators of parisc-linux port back in 1999.
> - - I have continuous worked on the ports since then.
> - - I'm currently one of the two official linux kernel maintainers for
>  the parisc port at kernel.org.
> - - I've fixed quite some debian bugs reported for parisc in the past,
>  including locking functions in gcc, KDE fixes, udev fixes and many  
> more.
> - - I do have a strong linux developer background (C/C++, Assembler)  
> and
>  was formerly a developer at a major linux distributor.
> - - I'm maintaining the parisc-linux website and wikis.
>
> I am not a DD/DM but would like to become one.
>
> At last, I would be happy if parisc could become again a supported
> platform in the debian-ports repositories for the lifetime of Jessie.
>
> parisc was dropped with debian squeeze, because there were quite some
> stability issues with the Linux kernel at that time. Currently,
> upstream kernel 3.10 (stable) and kernel 3.11 do work reliable on all
> major machines.
>
> -- Helge Deller
>
>
> On 09/01/2013 09:33 AM, Niels Thykier wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > As we announced in [LAST-BITS], we would like to get a better idea of
> > that status of the ports, to make an informed decision about which
> > port can be released with jessie. One of the steps is to get an
> > overview of which of the porters are (still) active for each
> > port. Once the results from the role-call are in, we will request
> > other information about the status of the ports. In the meantime,  
> > feel
> > free to update and collect info about the ports in the Debian  
> > wiki[WIKI].
> >
> > If you are (or intend to become) an active porter for the lifetime of
> > jessie, then please send a signed email explaining your involvement  
> > in
> > the port to the Release Team <debian-release@lists.debian.org> before
> > 1st of October 2013. Please explain the level of your involvement in
> > the port.
> >
> > Feel free to use the following template as your reply:
> >
> > """
> >  Hi,
> >
> >  I am an active porter for the following architectures and I intend
> >  to continue this for the lifetime of the jessie release:
> >
> >  For <ARCH>, I
> >  - test (most|all) packages on this architecture
> >  - fix toolchain issues
> >  - triage arch-specific bugs
> >  - fix arch-related bugs
> >  - maintain buildds
> >  - ...
> >
> >  <I am a DD|I am a DM|I am not a DD/DM>
> >
> >  <YOUR NAME>
> > """
> >
> > Niels, on behalf of the release team
> >
> > [LAST-BITS] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2013/08/msg00006.html
> >
> > [WIKI] https://wiki.debian.org/ArchiveQualification/Jessie
>
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John David Anglin	dave.anglin@bell.net