Re: squeeze and the future of the alpha port, redux

2009-02-22 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 01:52:03PM +0100, Oliver Falk wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: >> [ ... ] not >> to mention the serious problems of the port's viability implied by things >> like the lack of Java support > gcj and openjdk work fine in Fedora. AFAIK, Gentoo also has Java for > Alpha. So it

Re: squeeze and the future of the alpha port, redux

2009-02-22 Thread Michael Cree
Steve Langasek wrote: Also unsurprisingly (to me, given my observations that had led to the post in the first place), no one else has yet stepped up to be an alpha porter for squeeze. What is involved in this job? What is the time commitment? What is the needed experience? Up to now I

Re: squeeze and the future of the alpha port, redux

2009-02-22 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 10:01:52PM +1300, Michael Cree wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: >> Also unsurprisingly (to me, given my observations that had led to the post >> in the first place), no one else has yet stepped up to be an alpha porter >> for squeeze. > What is involved in this job? Collect