Hi, I would be interested in helping out. I don't have a significant amount of experience with software development, but I do have a good selection of PowerPC hardware and several years of experience with Debian.
Logan Brown On Nov 21, 2013 12:24 AM, "Rogério Brito" <rbr...@ime.usp.br> wrote: > Dear people, > > Motivated by: > > * the results of the last call to porters > * the fact that PowerPC (at least) used to be an architecture where Debian > shined > * the lack of external support (which means that we should help ourselves) > * the documentation that is too spread > * the need of architecture-specific tools (pbbuttonsd? mouseemu? > gtkpbbutons? anything that needs to be revived? yahoot? grub2?) > > I thought: perhaps are people out there that may be interested in shaping > up > the powerpc port of Debian? > > In fact, since: > > * Ubuntu doesn't offer an official PowerPC release anymore. > * Apple has long given up updating the operating system for PowerPC users. > * Major projects like Chromium/v8/nodejs are not available for PowerPC. > * Firefox for PowerPC is essentially dead as far as Mozilla is concerned, > with only a very bright enthusiast working on building it with JavaScript > acceleration (http://tenfourfox.blogspot.com/), > > we are essentially orphans of the architecture. Again, would anybody else > be > interested in addressing the current problems that PowerPC seems to have? > > It would be super nice to work on having the installs as good as possible > (meaning: "working with as little fiddling as possible after a fresh > install"), integrating intelligence about snd-aoa, snd-powermac etc. in > debian-installer, making the 3D thing work as well as feasible, > automatically suggesting programs (alas, even firmware) that are of use for > a powerpc user? > > What about this idea? > > Perhaps we can already grab/compile the resources that others have already > kept (say, the Gentoo pages, which are very good, the Ubuntu PowerPC FAQ, > which is another very good resource), an old document that I, a long time > ago, started writing at https://github.com/rbrito/powerpc-tutorial etc. > > Of course, having both the document for those people that want to know how > things are done and having the code that just works is the golden goal... > > Please, let me know if you are interested in joining efforts. I will only > commit efforts if I see other people contributing, as I have my hands full > already. > > > Thanks, > > -- > Rogério Brito : rbrito@{ime.usp.br,gmail.com} : GPG key 4096R/BCFCAAAA > http://cynic.cc/blog/ : github.com/rbrito : profiles.google.com/rbrito > DebianQA: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=rbrito%40ime.usp.br > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131121050736.ga22...@ime.usp.br > >
