On 10/04/11 20:04, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > I am a mostly dis-interested outsider for both the alpha and hppa > architectures. I write this to be supportive of the ftpmasters.
+1 > It seems to me that the alpha porters have had quite a lot of time to > bring the architecture up to the level of quality that is expected from > Debian ports in the main archive. Agreed, not only that but once they *do* get it back to release quality they need to demonstrate that they have the manpower resources to keep it there. I think that maintaining it properly for at least six months would demonstrate that they have a viable team. > The problem of lack of porter manpower > have affected alpha for much longer than that, of course. Having a > couple of new people promise to do better is not enough Agreed, a sensibly sized working team is required. > (Although, now that I think about it, it's probably hard for alpha to be > considered a viable architecture, unless there is new hardware being > produced and sold.) There needs to be enough reliable hardware available to maintain the port. Without that the task is impossible. Colin -- Colin Tuckley | +44(0)1223 293413 | PGP/GnuPG Key Id Debian Developer | +44(0)7799 143369 | 0x1B3045CE Useless Invention: Particle board tent stakes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4da20358.2040...@debian.org