On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:15 AM, Pierre Schmitz <pie...@archlinux.de> wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 1. April 2009 05:20:37 schrieb Aaron Griffin: >> I specifically told you guys that we were NOT dropping the i686 port, >> and you guys went and voted on it without me? This is the last straw. >> If you guys don't fix this now, consider this my last email. > > This is just typical for Americans. They tend to be so proud of being one of > the oldest democracies but when the result of a vote does not match their > interest they start whining like a little child.
*sigh* politics! You're right though, it doesnt matter how many cars phrak throws, the decision stands. > Anyway: We should decide on the schedule asap. People are already confused. So > here is my proposal: > > * We should maintain the core repo for i686 till the end of the year. It's not > that much work and it would give the people enough time to migrate. > * The [extra] update should be maintained until July; KDE 4.3 will be released > then and be the first x86_64 exclusive set of packages. > * The [community]-i686 repo should be removed between now and July; but this > has to be decided by the TUs. What difference does a few months make? Might as well save us the trouble and ditch it by the end of this month seeing as everyone knows now. > Till then we should concentrate on giving every dev access to x86_64 machines; > see Dusty's thread. I've setup SSH on my box if anyone needs one in the meantime. What's the status on pacbuild? James