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--- On Sun, 9/11/11, Joshua Kinard <kumba@g.o> wrote: |
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> From: Joshua Kinard <kumba@g.o> |
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> Subject: [gentoo-mips] A big thanks to Matt Turner for his hard work on Gentoo/MIPS |
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> To: "Gentoo-dev" <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>, "Gentoo/MIPS" <gentoo-mips@l.g.o> |
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> Cc: mattst88@g.o |
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> Date: Sunday, September 11, 2011, 10:09 PM |
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> Hey all, |
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> I just want to take a minute to thank Matt Turner |
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> (mattst88) for all his |
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> hard work and leadership in keeping Gentoo/MIPS alive |
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> within the project. |
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> |
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> It has been a long, tough road for the MIPS port of |
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> Gentoo. Our hardware is |
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> quirky, extremely diversified, sometimes archaic, and not |
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> the easiest in the |
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> world to understand. With my time having been limited |
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> over the past two or |
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> so years, we had regressed a fair bit, and the MIPS port as |
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> a whole has |
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> largely been leaderless. Thus we became a thorn in |
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> the side of many a |
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> developer, many of whom I sure asked the question, "Why are |
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> we still |
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> supporting this oddball architecture?". |
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> Matt has stepped up to the plate and gotten things fixed up |
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> and working |
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> again, a task that I honestly felt was becoming more and |
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> more of a long-shot |
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> with each passing week. We have new stages -- in all |
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> ABIs and two (or three |
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> now?) ISAs, proper multilib support, our bug count is |
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> actually going down, |
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> and possibly new install media on the way. None, I |
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> repeat, none of this |
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> would have been possible without Matt's leadership and |
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> drive to make the |
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> MIPS port relevant once more. |
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> So please join me in thanking Matt for his hard work, time, |
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> and leadership |
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> in making Gentoo/MIPS a viable element of the Gentoo |
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> project one again! |
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> Thanks Matt! |
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> -- |
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> Joshua Kinard |
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> Gentoo/MIPS |
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> kumba@g.o |
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> 4096R/D25D95E3 2011-03-28 |
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> "The past tempts us, the present confuses us, the future |
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> frightens us. And |
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> our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast, |
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> terrible in-between." |
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> --Emperor Turhan, Centauri Republic |
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