Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 13:29:13 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Nikos Ntarmos <ntarmos@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alpha-related PRs for obsolete FBSD branches Message-ID: <20060926112913.GA6218@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20060926001328.GA5280@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr> References: <20060926001328.GA5280@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr>
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On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 03:13:28AM +0300, Nikos Ntarmos wrote..
> Hi there.
>
> I was going through the list of problem reports assigned to
> FreeBSD/alpha and noticed that some of the PRs refer to EoL'd
> branches. Specifically, PRs alpha/{38031,48676,59116,67626} refer to
> pre-4.11 branches, and PRs alpha/{47952,50868,61940,61973,66478} refer
> to pre-5.3 branches. Wouldn't it be sane to ask for whether these bugs
> still exist in officially supported branches and close them otherwise?
Some of the bugs are still there, I am quite certain of that.
> Or is their existence just an artifact of FreeBSD/alpha's being a
> Tier-2 platform?
Hm, well, the problem is that Alpha never had enough developers
working on it to keep critical mass. Combine that with the
wide variation of hardware, each with their own peculiarities and
you have a less than desirable situation.
That said, I will try to go through GNATS and see if I can do
some janitoring.
--
Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org
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