-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 02/17/2013 04:03 PM, Agostino Sarubbo wrote: > In the last time I'm helping some other arches (also arches which I > have no interest) because they appears understaffed. > > Days ago, I tried to make a virtual machine with qemu, for SH since > the dev- machine[1] is a bit slow; well, I discovered we have no > ISO[2] available and there is no handbook[3] for it. > > The same thing is for S390/S390X/M68K/. So how I am able to install > one of that _supported_ arches if there isn't any sort of guide? > > An interesting fact is that we have an handbook for MIPS[4], a > declared unsupported architecture (does not make sense for me). > > Another example is that we have no stable keyword on GCC/glibc for > m68k and I don't know if I need to use another compiler or another > libc. > > Checking on bugzilla I saw no report for some of those arches, so > for me that _partially_ means that probably there are very few > users for those arches on gentoo. > > Now, imho, we have 2 choice: > > 1)Support them with an iso or at least a manual if we can't do an > handbook 2)Lose the stable keyword and don't waste manpower > anymore. > > What do you think about? > > Ref: [1]: > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/infrastructure/dev-machines.xml [2]: > http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/where.xml [3]: > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/#doc_chap2 [4]: > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook- > mips.xml?style=printable&full=1 >
First you need to tell us what arches you think they are considered 'minor' and/or understaffed so we can finally document that. Then, in my opinion, the ideal approach would be to just drop the stable keywords for them. - -- Regards, Markos Chandras - Gentoo Linux Developer http://dev.gentoo.org/~hwoarang -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJRITEwAAoJEPqDWhW0r/LCiiQP/2vpx4QuEgJqB3vYpcmmYcwa jLleJnWeat/IsVx3cH28Wy0fLra4MWe8sTGDjtbNBnZZ1z59Fep2Nk/8z3KpoBI0 gcKzRinBbqhDjUmoJDQGW16zvTrNWmkAfwkclPTM8v3mJKFl01pODcJUgAk7UrLM NVLyp3OpToF7ZTrJr+lFeHEUB88vcdfnMeV3bM3XZEfifL5cabzUjVibL08utaz2 zYL9Rn6UMmzZvYTSrnsOBTOt2uI8ptzp9Ih7mRI5zt8aKrQd5vCYZ/aLXvObF+64 ZTjxzMWAC8GbXqQxXAQ/VNKryFyDV8OKj39QsQwoxLNMIV4Pg4Yc1u+fJMqXTu+X nXyvHMM/lcHq6h37E2ua1BjL0tLZGq4kxsGgKuSCzt7gwNAoyCE7eY1V5qFk/uAL U4ATVsY2Q4mKFdu2FlHbn4LfY9D7Rn3OlJhbA2J7108g4BMm70Q++qrxSBAj1xGu VobIkvg5E73Jb3sbcdOS1QOk5cviev4LTh3HjWO6Ozc4HkhdpWk/NlqmQ9SN7J6b hz5sVyV1vPI5/19kfAjBaMotlmLjhq+WgAYRZfeeXJbV/hWXz96eigoxT5n7FbM6 aeZKG2Oj8CD0ndH+nf0bg/dACmGJwVnSRBV5iQSuEFO+kLnANRtYEBicjBR92WaJ LiRb4ul/HhURsWeCgIqU =SsrL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
