On 29/06/2016 15:24, Ed Maste wrote: > On 20 June 2016 at 10:19, Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> wrote: >> >> As per Paolo's recommendation, downgrade status of "BSD user" from >> Maintained to Orphan since the FreeBSD guys effectively forked it, and >> "SPARC target" from Maintained to Odd Fixes, since we still have the >> overall TCG maintainer looking after it. > > Note that we are still very interested in having the BSD user > refactoring and improvements upstream, and are not interested in > indefinitely carrying around a fork. We do need to figure out how to > effectively restart the effort to upstream the work. > > The bsd-user work is stable and usable. We use it to cross-build more > than 20,000 packages of third-party software in the FreeBSD ports > collection.
Honestly I'm wondering if a huge code drop could be the right solution here. It's not how we usually do things, but rules exist to be broken... Paolo
