Carlos, On 08/06/2010 10:48 AM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
I think we do agree that it will be included into stable for the last time.Under which metrics or evaluation process is this decision being made?
basically the criteria listed on [0] (which is again not entirely up-to-date, though). I think for hppa it would be mainly architecture availability, keeping the buildds running for yet another stable release until EOL (which would for squeeze probably be now+0,5y+2y+1y=now+3,5y), buildds being redundant hardware-wise, builds not failing for the security in non-obvious manners[1], having some upstream support, etc.
More than one porter is also important so that we are not left alone if the only person working on it needs to shift his/her priorities (c.f. bus factor).
Kind regards, Philipp Kern [0] http://release.debian.org/squeeze/arch_qualify.html [1] Like requiring multiple give-backs until it finally builds.