Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2004 23:42:28 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP! KSE needs more attention Message-ID: <20040606214228.GA44280@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20040606211249.GC96607@dhcp50.pn.xcllnt.net> References: <40C36D31.4010003@freebsd.org> <20040606193510.GA95886@dhcp50.pn.xcllnt.net> <40C37F3C.1050602@freebsd.org> <20040606211249.GC96607@dhcp50.pn.xcllnt.net>
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On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 02:12:49PM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 02:31:56PM -0600, Scott Long wrote: > > > As with Alpha, > > the fate of a platform rests on the people who are willing to work on > > it, not on whether it is in a particular list. > > Agreed, but it's the projects responsibility to take the tierness and > the intend to support multiple platforms serious and not to chicken out > at the first signs of complications or hurdles. We labeled sparc64 as > a tier 1 platform and we better deal with the consequences. > > As for alpha, we don't even seem to be able to degrade it to tier 2 > without losing face. kris@ has already stopped package builds for it > for his own sake. > > Wake up, people. This is quickly becoming a joke... Right... <dons flak jacket> Basically only i386 is a Tier 1. The rest is a joke if it is called Tier 1. If only because there are insufficient numbers of committers actively working on the arch. (maybe pc98 should be called Tier 1, I just don't know enough about that one). -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org
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