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Date:      Mon, 7 Jun 2004 12:58:07 -0400
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP! KSE needs more attention
Message-ID:  <p06020443bcea4e890909@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <40C48BA8.6090005@freebsd.org>
References:  <40C36D31.4010003@freebsd.org> <20040606193510.GA95886@dhcp50.pn.xcllnt.net> <40C37F3C.1050602@freebsd.org> <20040606211249.GC96607@dhcp50.pn.xcllnt.net> <40C390C4.1000609@freebsd.org> <p06020439bce9548970a4@[128.113.24.47]> <40C48BA8.6090005@freebsd.org>

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At 9:37 AM -0600 6/7/04, Scott Long wrote:
>Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>>
>>I think you have to officially demote it, with emphasis on the
>>point that "demotion is not a terminal condition".  Then, if some
>>developer(s) show up and implement all the missing pieces, we
>>can happily announce it back in tier 1.
>>
>>But for now, say that it *IS* demoted.  Not that you're advocating
>>that we think about maybe demoting it in the future unless someone
>>offers to start looking into the missing pieces.
>
>One thing to note is that whatever platforms get dropped from tier-1
>status will have a high probablility of not getting updated with the
>upcoming binutils/gcc/gdb update that is coming.

If that is the case, then you can not say "demotion is not a terminal
condition".  That sounds pretty terminal to me.

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu



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