Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 14:23:17 +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas <zobel@ftbfs.de> wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> On Sunday, 13 Mar 2005, Steve Langasek wrote:
> [...]
> >
> > Therefore, we're planning on not releasing most of the minor architectures
> > starting with etch. They will be released with sarge, with all that
> > implies (including security support until sarge is archived), but they
> > would no longer be included in testing.
> [...]
> > We project that applying these rules for etch will reduce the set of
> > candidate architectures from 11 to approximately 4 (i386, powerpc, ia64
> > and amd64 -- which will be added after sarge's release when mirror space
>
> no sparc here.
>
> After speaking to Andreas Barth, asking, why sparc might become SCC, he
> pointed my to the last release update where it says:
>
> | It's for this reason that all architectures are
> | required to be synced to the same kernel version for sarge, but even so,
> | more per-architecture kernel help is needed, particularly for the sparc
> | and the arm port.
>
> So we seem to have a lack of sparc kernel hackers/developers.
> I myself are using Debian on sparc very much, but do not have the
> knowledge with sparc kernels to help here.
>
> The only thing i could do here is testing, testing, testing...
>
> > - 5 developers who will use or work on the port must send in
> > signed requests for its addition
> >
> > - the port must demonstrate that they have at least 50 users
>
> That should be possible somehow.
I'll make a standard pdf letter folks can print and sign and send if
they'd like.
They cannot kill the sparc line off, Debian is my favorite distro for
Sparc, we've got to do something about this!
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