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

2009-02-25 Thread Gianluca Bonetti
Hello world! I volunteer for some work in the project. If commitment is of some hours a week, I think I could manage it. I had a look at the open bugs in the last weeks and I can tell that many are related to ancient software. All of the kernel related bugs are of ancient releases (2.6.14,

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

2009-02-25 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Steve Langasek a écrit : On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 10:01:52PM +1300, Michael Cree wrote: It's not out of the question that this might happen before March. I don't know that the removal of alpha is going to be instantaneous, either; furthermore, removing alpha from the archive doesn't preclude

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

2009-02-25 Thread Luk Claes
Gianluca Bonetti wrote: Hello world! I volunteer for some work in the project. If commitment is of some hours a week, I think I could manage it. Well, the commitment needed depends on the issues that arise... Just a last consideration... it is well known that Alpha platform has to come

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

2009-02-23 Thread Arthur Loiret
Hi, 2009/2/20, Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org: 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. I am volunteer to apply as alpha porter. I have several alpha machines of my own,

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

2009-02-23 Thread maximilian attems
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 09:59:31AM +0100, Arthur Loiret wrote: 2009/2/20, Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org: 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. I am volunteer

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? Collectively,

squeeze and the future of the alpha port, redux

2009-02-20 Thread Steve Langasek
Dear Alpha fans, In August of last year, I posed the question to the debian-alpha mailing list: should Debian continue to support an alpha port following the release of lenny? http://lists.debian.org/debian-alpha/2008/08/msg4.html As would be expected when making such a post to the

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

2009-02-20 Thread Oliver Falk
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 shouldn't be to hard to get it running on Debian! and the general

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

2009-02-20 Thread Matt Turner
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 7:52 AM, Oliver Falk oli...@linux-kernel.at 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.