Re: Using Debian funds to support a gcc development task

[Steffen Möller <steffen_moeller@gmx.de>]

Hello,

On 30.09.19 06:20, Charles Plessy wrote:
> Le Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 11:44:26AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz a écrit :
> > In the future, gcc upstream expects all backends to be using MODE_CC for the
> > internal register representation as the old CC0 is supposed to be removed.
> >
> > Since the lack of modernization would eventually mean that m68k support would
> > get removed from gcc, I'm currently running a campaign to prevent that. I
> > have already opened a tracker bug upstream in gcc's bugzilla [2] as well as
> > linked the issue to BountySource [3].
> (...)
> > I thought of something around $1000 to $5000 depending on how much the project
> > is willing to spend.
> Hi John and everybody,
>
> given the reminders that Debian refrains from paying developers for
> their time, I wonder if it would still be possible to make a small
> contribution that expresses Debian's interest and sympathy to your goal,
> with the hope that our name will help the crowdfunding effort.
> Something on a scale that would allow us to answer positively to similar
> requests without putting a significant burden on our finances... Maybe
> $100 ?  This is the same amount as what Debian is willing to reimburse
> for travel costs to bug-squashing parties, for instance.

I like the idea to find additional "enablers" of developments that
Debian would support. And such a $100 honorary bounty might have some
merits. If we collect a couple of them, then this would also help
defining the strategy of our development a bit.

Something else that Debian (or some institution next to Debian that we
invent for that purpose) could possibly come up with is a "go fund me"
for key technologies to be ported to off-mainstream platforms. Or for
key technologies that our distribution misses.

Best,
Steffen