Re: Release Architectures for Debian 9 'Stretch'
I'm willing to support somehow.
I own several PowerPC (G4 & G5) machines and could also spent some time for doing testings.
I studied IT in 2000 and since then I haven’t spent much time on real IT stuff. Only IS Service- and Release Mgmt so far. I even don’t remember the last time i installed Eclipse or similar IDEs.
If someone is able and willing to do some more fancy stuff on PowerPC arch, I could donate one or two of my machines. They are all located in Switzerland.
This would be a much better idea than to let them gather dust in a corner.
Just let me know how I could support you.
Regards
Dragan
> Am 04.11.2016 um 19:34 schrieb Christoph Biedl <debian.axhn@manchmal.in-ulm.de>:
>
> Herminio Hernandez Jr. wrote...
>
>> To say that no one stepped forward is not true. Adrian stepped up
>> and asked to be the porter for PowerPC.
>
> Digging in the past isn't very helpful, but there one thing I'd like
> to understand: Nobody responded to the initial role call in August.
> Some folks had done this for jessie some two years ago. Who were they?
> Are they still around? Did they silently disappear, or did they sign
> off somewhat formally?
>
> I was quite shocked to learn so few people are backing this
> architecture. I'm afraid I couldn't spend more time on this but real
> life was pretty tough in the past weeks, and my job is slowly killing
> me.
>
> And personally I'm cut as well - with powerpc I finally saw a niche
> where I could do something useful without interference of the Debian
> bullies. Some boxes are on their way to me, I had plans to rebuild the
> entire archive on G4 CPU systems since appearently there are more
> issues that don't show on the G5 buildds - I'm not sure how much of
> this I will still do.
>
> Also I consider big-endian architectures crucial: There still is a
> tremendous amount of endianness bugs in the code, powerpc helps to
> detect them.
>
> Christoph
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