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-of > -----Original Message----- > From: Bill MacAllister [mailto:w...@stanford.edu] > Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 3:43 PM > To: Michael Cree; debian-alpha@lists.debian.org; > robert.gar...@ieeda.net; c...@ekkaia.net; bary...@smp.if.uj.edu.pl; > aloi...@debian.org > Subject: Re: Advancing Debian Alpha Porting > > > > --On Thursday, April 14, 2011 08:48:10 PM +1200 Michael Cree > <mc...@orcon.net.nz> wrote: > > > Debian Alpha People, > > > > You may have noted the removal of the Alpha port from the Debian > > autobuilder network. Packages are no longer being built for the > > unstable distribution. > > > > Hopefully you have seen the promising message from Aurelien [1] that > > it is likely that the Alpha port of Debian can be accommodated in > > debian-ports in the next couple of weeks or so. To enable that we > > need to start organising ourselves. As no-one else has stepped up I > > am sending out this message but I have to admit I have limited > > knowledge of the Debian process of porting and packaging. I suspect > > we may be all on a step learning curve. Has anyone heard from Arthur > > Loiret? It would be nice to get an actual Debian Developer on board. > > I have experience building debian packages that we use internally here at > Stanford. I can help with basic packaging. > > > The debian-ports server is a wanna-build server. It maintains a > > database of built and needs to be built packages and manages the > > allocation of building to buildds. I believe debian-ports also hosts > > the accessible apt package repository. > > > > It appears we are to provide the Alpha buildds. We need at least two > > for redundancy but if older hardware is used then we may need three or > > four. Craig, Witold, Robert, are you all able to offer a machine to > > be a buildd? I don't think I can---I have an XP1000 that is my main > > computer that I use, and two PWS600au, but they are a bit slow. > > I have several AlphaServer 1200s and DecServer 5000s that are idle right > now. I can probably only bring two onto the net, but I am happy to do that. > > > Who is prepared to assist in the checking of built package logs, > > uploading successful builds, and reporting build failures? > > Hopefully we can get three or four of us so that it lightens the load > > and enables package builds to continue when someone is unavailable. I > > volunteer for some of this load --- but I won't be able to attend to > > it every day. It will be more likely twice a week. > > I can also help with looking the the build logs. > > > There are some other things we have to sort out to have a fully > > working Alpha autobuilder network but the above is a start. > > Thanks for your efforts and let me know what I can do to help. > > Bill > > > Cheers > > Michael. > > > > [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-alpha/2011/04/msg00018.html > > > > -- > > Bill MacAllister > Infrastructure Delivery Group, Stanford University > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-alpha-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/687DD637EB53BA91C80A4D3E@[10.0.0.32] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-alpha-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/vmime.4da700c0.73cc.89c4b394d0e8...@okocim.linux-kernel.at