Re: Q for all candidates: (Old) Architecture Support

2010-03-24 Thread Andreas Barth
* Margarita Manterola (margamanter...@gmail.com) [100318 21:03]: > I would like to support as many architectures as possible. We cannot > deny the passage of time, however, and so we must accept that some > architectures are bound to stop being supported. This even happened > some years ago with

Re: Q for all candidates: (Old) Architecture Support

2010-03-24 Thread Andreas Barth
* Yavor Doganov (ya...@gnu.org) [100317 14:55]: > - mips/mipsel are probably the most hated archs by DDs in the past few > months :-), and there's no ironclad way to secure their future too. First of all, the needs-build queue is almost empty on mipsel (and was on mips till we lost the hard disk

Re: Q for all candidates: (Old) Architecture Support

2010-03-18 Thread Margarita Manterola
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Yavor Doganov wrote: > Debian has been known through the years for its excellent support for > many architectures.  In theory, a released arch should be as stable as > the common/popular archs.  (In practice, it is/was pretty close, which > is good enough.) Yes,

Re: Q for all candidates: (Old) Architecture Support

2010-03-18 Thread Yavor Doganov
В Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:02:56 +0900, Charles Plessy написа: > Le Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 03:49:16PM +0200, Yavor Doganov a écrit : >> * There should be an entitiy within the project to decide which arch >> gets released and which not > I do not completely agree with this: > > I think that the porters

Re: Q for all candidates: (Old) Architecture Support

2010-03-17 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Hi Yavor! On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 03:49:16PM +0200, Yavor Doganov wrote: > This asset is not something to be proud of because of shallow > marketing reasons -- it benefits the whole Free World as many bugs are > uncovered, reported, and fixed, quite often by Debian people. It > would not be incor

Re: Q for all candidates: (Old) Architecture Support

2010-03-17 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 12:02:56AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > By the way, I would like to react to one of Wouter's comment, that package > maintainers should fix the porting bugs themselves. I didn't mean to imply that, and if it came across as such, I would like to apologise. What I meant to

Re: Q for all candidates: (Old) Architecture Support

2010-03-17 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 03:49:16PM +0200, Yavor Doganov a écrit : > > * There should be an entitiy within the project to decide which arch > gets released and which not, which one is blocking the whole release > process and ought to be ignored for testing propagation, etc. > Naturally, such

Re: Q for all candidates: (Old) Architecture Support

2010-03-17 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 03:49:16PM +0200, Yavor Doganov wrote: > Debian has been known through the years for its excellent support for > many architectures. In theory, a released arch should be as stable as > the common/popular archs. (In practice, it is/was pretty close, which > is good enough.)

Q for all candidates: (Old) Architecture Support

2010-03-17 Thread Yavor Doganov
Debian has been known through the years for its excellent support for many architectures. In theory, a released arch should be as stable as the common/popular archs. (In practice, it is/was pretty close, which is good enough.) This asset is not something to be proud of because of shallow market