On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 09:27:25AM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Ingo Juergensmann said: > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 12:47:58PM +0100, Julien BLACHE wrote: > > > > > Moreover, the criterias given in your mail are just so oriented > > > towards/against some architectures, that it's a bad joke (I was going > > > to write "disgusting", really). > > > > It's a total change of direction: from "as long as there are people who > > care, we will release those arch" to "no matter if there are people who > > care, we just release mainstream archs". :-( > > No, I thought the proposal stated quite clearly, if there are users and > there are porters, a given arch is able to be included. All that means > is that those interested will actually have to do some of the work to > support things like security and the kernel. I know many of you already
That is a joke. Do you really think that the porters don't care about the kernel ? I would really like that you don't drag the kernel-team in these petty claims, as i don't think that this is a problem kernel-wise. For example the first to go for the recent 2.6.11 kernels that are in the work where powerpc and sparc, and now s390 : $ ls -d */*11* powerpc/kernel-patch-powerpc-2.6.11-2.6.11 source/kernel-source-2.6.11-2.6.11 s390/kernel-image-2.6.11-s390 sparc/kernel-image-2.6.11-sparc-2.6.11 (in the subversion repo). Apart from powerpc, where i did the job, no other tier-1 arch is included here, and i had trouble getting the ia64 guys to even look at it (which they have done now). This doesn't include arches who are not at 2.6 kernels yet, but i rather believe that they would be rather responsive about this kind of thing too, at least some of them. > do quite good work as porters, and I mean no offense. But I can see > quite clearly that it would be difficult for the security team or other > groups to keep up with things growing the way they are. So, if there is too much work for a small group, then open it out. But it is not by insulting the people you need the help from that things will get forward. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]