Re: FW: Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3 years?
On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 at 00:41, deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
> > In my opinion the most important message is this:
> >> > [----- Forwarded message from Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> -----]
> >> > 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?
Some discussion around those questions occurred in the thread from
which Andrei forwarded one message. The thread begins here:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2020/12/msg00139.html
so that's probably a good place to begin reading for anyone interested
in this topic.
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