Hello Brock! On 9/29/19 4:10 PM, Brock Wittrock wrote: > 1) It was a simple enough request and reasonable in my opinion. I'm also glad > that he was willing to ask in the first place because as some say, when you > don't ask the answer is already no anyways, so why not ask? > > 2) I understand though why the other side sees his request as a bit > outrageous from a user base and upstream support, perspective (among other > reasons). In most cases, I'd agree that those are the perfect metrics to > measure one's decision on for these kinds of matters in almost all cases. On > the other hand, I see M68K (both the new and old hardware) as an important > architecture to keep around for 1) keeping a wide variety of CPU > architectures available for learning, understanding, and diversity and 2) > historical purposes (although this is obviously the much weaker argument from > a developer support standpoint -- I'd totally agree with that). I'm also sad > to hear about the fate of mips(eb). :( > > 3) It's clear everyone in this thread is passionate about Debian, free > software, and in Adrian's case, passionate about keeping the unofficial M68K > port alive. This passion from everyone is certainly contagious. So kudos to > all of you. > > I hope Debian will reconsider providing at least a small part of the funding > and I'm positive the hobbyist community around M68K (as well as other > avenues) can come together for the rest. I believe by doing so, it would show > Debian doing things that prove itself as "the universal operating system." That was a very kind message. Thanks a lot for confirming I'm not completely alone in this thread.
Having said that, I'm going to unsubscribe from this list now as I realize that what we do in Debian Ports is still not considered useful many others, so I think it's not possible to find an agreement. Thanks, Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
