Re: FW: Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3 years?
Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> Sorry, should have been more explicit: I'm just the messenger here,
> assuming that most debian-user subscribers are probably not following
> debian-devel.
>
this is true - thank you
I became aware of the i386 issue on the geode dev news list (AFAIR) some
time ago (may be 6months).
> In my opinion the most important message is this:
>
>> > What's perhaps more significant is that i386 is now getting to the
>> > point where it requires such prodding, instead of being an assumed
>> > default architecture. That means that the folks who care about it
>> > should probably start thinking about building more organization and
>> > structure around the work, recruiting people, building a task list, and
>> > so forth, instead of just assuming "oh, everything will work on i386,
>> > it always has." Volunteering to do that sort of coordination is helpful
>> > even if you aren't debugging FTBFS problems.
>
>
> That is, if you and other list subscribers care about continued i386
> support you should probably look into contributing.
What does it mean exactly? Contribute how and where?
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