Hi, The results of the final architecture qualification will soon be published. In there is reference to a number of concerns about the kFreeBSD port and its place in Jessie. We want to recognise that you have put in a lot of work recently, and even some personal expense, to keep the kFreeBSD port viable. However, we're greatly concerned that there remain only one, maybe two active porters in recent months and our criteria for Jessie states unambiguously that 5 is an absolute minimum. The rationale for this is that being part of a stable release involves, as you already know, at least three years committment to maintaining stable and oldstable, on top of continuing development in sid. It has implications for DSA, the security team, the release team and others. The problem with lack of manpower is borne out in reports such as #756464, which has been open at critical severity since July and was last updated getting on for a month ago. There's a stated aim to remove the kernel version 9 from Jessie, which hasn't happened yet. Some RC bugs are fixed in experimental but those fixes haven't been uploaded to sid. We've decided to evaluate the status of kFreeBSD on a yes/no basis shortly after the freeze begins properly. That gives about six weeks in which to get the port into a good state. We do appreciate that hard work has gone into the port recently, and suggest that an increase in the number of porters available might alleviate our concerns about the port's viability. If there are porters working in the background, and not very visible on mailing lists and bug reports, now would be a good time to highlight that. Meanwhile, please take this mail as a courtesy in advance of publication of the architecture qualification, and we encourage you to keep in touch about your status and plans over the next few weeks. Thanks, For the release team: -- Jonathan Wiltshire jmw@debian.org Debian Developer http://people.debian.org/~jmw 4096R: 0xD3524C51 / 0A55 B7C5 1223 3942 86EC 74C3 5394 479D D352 4C51
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