Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 00:13:08 -0400 (EDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: jhb@FreeBSD.org Cc: bmah@FreeBSD.org, doc-committers@FreeBSD.org, andre@FreeBSD.org, cvs-doc@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: www/en index.xsl Message-ID: <20060512.001308.126925417.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <200605111952.57682.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <4464020F.3000609@freebsd.org> <446403FE.8050908@freebsd.org> <200605111952.57682.jhb@freebsd.org>
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John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> writes:
: On Thursday 11 May 2006 23:41, Andre Oppermann wrote:
: > Bruce A. Mah wrote:
: > > If memory serves me right, Andre Oppermann wrote:
: > >> andre 2006-05-12 02:54:03 UTC
: > >>
: > >> FreeBSD doc repository (src committer)
: > >>
: > >> Modified files:
: > >> en index.xsl
: > >> Log:
: > >> Alpha has left the building. Add ARM and rearrange the list of
: > >> architectures a bit.
: > >
: > > I wonder if the !alpha part was a little premature? Yes, the alpha
: > > kernel bits are gone from HEAD, but they're still around on RELENG_5 and
: > > RELENG_6, and we're still planning to do releases from both of those
: > > codelines. The first release that won't include alpha will be 7.0, and
: > > its release cycle doesn't even *start* for over a year.
: > >
: > > Just a thought...
: >
: > There are like two remaining Alpha users and we most likely won't gain
: > any new ones in the foreseeable future. Though we are compiling releases
: > according to jhb it isn't even clear they actually work on Alpha. It's
: > not actively maintained anymore. It really has left the building and there
: > is no point in advertising it on our homepage instead of on some random
: > tombstone somewhere out in the past architectures graveyard.
:
: There are more than 2 users, but when users report problems those problems
: aren't really resolved. I think Alpha should stay on the main page until it
: is officially retired when 7.0 is released. We also shouldn't mention arm
: until it's actually "included" in a release which it is not yet.
arm was in 6.0
Warner
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