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Following up to my email from a year ago.... |
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I've been out for several months and getting back to working on Gentoo. |
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I'd like to provide an update on ia64 status... |
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On 05/17/15 08:04, Jack Morgan wrote: |
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> All, |
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> I wanted to send out an update on the IA64 arch team status. Currently, |
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> we are one of the few Linux distributions that is still supporting this |
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> arch as far as I know. Debian, for example, has stopped supporting it[1] |
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> last year. Getting access to hardware will continue to be challenge |
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> moving forward. |
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> I'm hoping to get some feedback from the community as to what should be |
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> supported and what can be reduced. My overall plan as I mentioned in a |
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> previous email to reduce the total number of keywords for ia64 to a more |
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> manageable level. I'd like to continue to have ia64 be a stable arch for |
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> gentoo for as long as it makes sense. |
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I would be surprised if we have more then a dozen users in total ;) |
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A couple of them are fairly active. |
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> (1) Bugzilla |
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> At the time of writing, here is the bug count for ia64. Since I'm |
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> devaway the next few days, I'll start working on these in a week. |
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> ia64: total (135), keywordreq (59), stablereq(57) |
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A lot more todo here nowadays ... |
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ia64: total (276), keywordreq (50), stablereq(208) |
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If you are about to drop the last stable keyworded ebuild, please ping |
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me before hand. I will put it to the top of my queue. This is especially |
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true if its part of the system. |
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> (2) Installation (Wiki/Releng) |
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> The documentation is up to date and accurate. Thanks doc team! I |
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> recently did a fresh install so the current iso and stage3 work well. |
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> The stage3 need to be updated because they include perl-18 instead of |
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> perl-20. Otherwise, the install process is stable on my system. |
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> (3) Infra |
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> There is one developer machine[2] to use for keyword testing. Please |
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> request access from the contact in you would like a shell account. |
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We still have these for all to use. |
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> (4) Profiles |
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> (a) systemd support |
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> I'm not sure that systemd works on ia64 though it is keyworded. I will |
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> test it in a week or so. If it is not working, then I propose to drop |
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> support and move to eudev. I'd like to support if possible. The systemd |
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> team recently created a systemd only profile (without a desktop) so it |
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> might be a candidate. |
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No update here and not sure of the status as I need to investigate |
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> (b) gnome/kde desktop support |
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> I'd like to propose dropping support for gnome/kde desktop (assuming its |
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> keyworded - I've not checked). My personal system at home and the one I |
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> rescued at work, don't have its own video card. In fact, they are both |
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> servers. I looked on ebay and couldn't find a "desktop" ia64 system for |
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> sale. I imagine this is a endangered species. I could put a video card |
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> in it, but note sure it makes sense long term nor have developer |
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> resources to continue to keyword it. Perhaps, reducing the desktop to |
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> just xfce4 or xorg/fluxbox would work. I'm open to others opinions. |
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I'm planning on dropping support for all desktop. I only have servers |
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(two of them) so will reduce the number of keyworded ebuilds to those |
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that run on a server. |
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> (c) java support |
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> The java team said they don't have cycles to support ia64. There a |
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> number of keyworded packages (around 100). Support would have to come |
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> from the ia64 team or the community. Unless someone steps up to help out |
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> with java, I'll propose to drop support on ia64. Thanks to the java team |
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> for helping us know what needs to be done to support java or not. |
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Support already dropped last year. Thanks java team. |
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> (5) anything else? |
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> Is there anything I missed? Other sections of gentoo? |
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I need to schedule the annual arch team meeting to elect the arch lead. |
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Current members are are listed below. If you are not actively working on |
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ia64, then please update you status. |
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Lead(s) none (No lead election date set) |
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Members |
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Agostino Sarubbo (ago) - ( Security bugs primarily ) |
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Akinori Hattori (hattya) - ( Gentoo/IA-64 ) |
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Jack Morgan (jmorgan) - ( Gentoo/IA-64 ) |
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Mike Frysinger (vapier) - ( Gentoo/IA-64 ) |
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Mikle Kolyada (Zlogene) - ( Gentoo/IA-64 ) |
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> [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-ia64/2014/02/msg00000.html |
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> [2] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Infrastructure/Developer_Machines |
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Thanks, |
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-- |
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Jack Morgan |
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Pub 4096R/761D8E0A 2010-09-13 Jack Morgan <jmorgan@g.o> |
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