Sorry for the late notice - there is a live discussion scheduled for this Wednesday on this topic for any flavors that want to further the discussion.
http://summit.ubuntu.com/uos-16 11/meeting/22714/architecture-discussions/ On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 4:59 PM, Walter Lapchynski <w...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > As you can see from the page on [PPC][1], the architecture has only > community support from Ubuntu. Lubuntu has been trying as much as we can to > support this, but the fact of the matter is that we have no developers on > our team that can actually help with PPC bugs. > > The best you can hope for is that kernel developers (mostly, the issue is > with drivers) might have some interest in fixing bugs. However, with only > community support, that's unlikely. Most of the focus on PPC has been on the > server side of things, where graphics just don't come into play. > > My estimation of things is that Lubuntu on PPC mostly works, given a few > caveats. All we need to do to release PPC is for all of the test cases to be > completed successfully (regardless of whether or not there are bugs) and > that marked on the QA tracker for the final testing of each milestone. If we > don't have that done, Canonical will not let us release it. > > PPC was what brought me originally to Lubuntu, so there's a special place > for it in my heart. Having an OS make that old hardware work was very > refreshing and introduced me to the real power and mission of Lubuntu. > > However, I haven't ran PPC in a long, long time. That being said, I'm not of > much help. We rely on the community of users to help out. When I don't see > testing happening in the community, it makes me think that I'm not the only > one that's neglected their PPC machines. > > The reality of the situation is that there has been much talk throughout the > Ubuntu community over the past few years about getting rid of i386. If that > happens, I can't imagine that Canonical keeping PPC. With that in mind, I > think the end of PPC Lubuntu is coming regardless of what our feelings are. > > Furthermore, the Lubuntu Team is a small one and we often lack the capacity > to do the things that we need to do. PPC is just stretching us even thinner, > and into an area few of us really have the experience, knowledge, resources, > or time to deal with. > > That said, I'm inclined to suggest we start the process of removing PPC. We > managed to release an LTS, which is the only version we even bother with PPC > on. All we would need to do is ensure that all the point releases for Trusty > and Xenial get published. That would put us out until about August 2018. > > I think ultimately this will be better for the team. Most importantly, > though, I think it will be better for the PPC users that I fear we can't > really support and who we often leave with a frustrated experience. > > What do you think? > > [1]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPC > -- > @wxl | http://polka.bike > Lubuntu Release Manager & Head of QA > Ubuntu PPC Point of Contact > Ubuntu Oregon LoCo Team Leader > Ubuntu Membership Board & LoCo Council Member > Eugene Unix & GNU/Linux User Group Co-Organizer > > -- > Lubuntu-devel mailing list > lubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-devel > -- Lubuntu-users mailing list Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users
