Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 17:50:43 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: future for FBSD on alpha Message-ID: <20080801155042.GA1817@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20080801153556.GA83312@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <20080731221015.GA35293@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> <8F8C8CFE62002A4EB82EE1CE9F2ED7D40ECACD@depot.AxxisCorp.local> <20080731223325.GA35980@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> <8F8C8CFE62002A4EB82EE1CE9F2ED7D40ECAD0@depot.AxxisCorp.local> <20080801153556.GA83312@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk>
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Quoting Anton Shterenlikht, who wrote on Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 04:35:56PM +0100 .. > On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 10:20:51AM -0500, Richard J. Valenta wrote: > > I am not familiar with bsdstats at all... > > basically if you install port sysutils/bsdstats (just a shell script), > it will send a message from your box monthly to to bsdstats.org > with arch, os version, etc. The idea is to lobby software > producers into supporting their stuff on bsd by showing a large number > of live bsd systems. > > My interest is in lobbying fbsd management team not to drop alpha > support by showing a large number of live fbsd alpha systems. At present Guys.. there is no such thing as a management team that can force committers on Alpha. Or anything subject in FreeBSD for that matter. Please remember that FreeBSD is a volunteer driven project. > the numbers are so low that even RELENG_6 support might stop soon. Alpha support is gone from the cvs (well.. svn now) repository for anything newer than RELENG_6. If you follow the cvs/svn commit messages you will have seen that. > If more people participated and a more realistic (read higher) number > of alpha boxes appeared, perhaps we could prolong the life of fbsd on alpha. It is too late.. sorry but thats a fact of life. -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org
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