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On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 09:37:10AM -0400, Anthony G. Basile wrote: |
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> Hi everyone, |
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> I'm email gentoo-dev@ because I'm trying to hit up as many devs as |
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> possible. Hopefully you've seen the recent discussions about what to do |
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> with ppc/ppc64 given the low manpower. Let's get interested people |
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> meeting in #gentoo-powerpc on Monday Aug 4, 2014 @20:00 UTC. If there |
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> are no objections, I'll chair the first meeting so here's the agenda so far: |
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> 1. Let's reconstitute the team and elect a lead. |
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> 2. How should we address the low manpower issue. At least two solutions |
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> have been proposed so far: |
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> a. Drop of many stable keywords to ~arch while retaining a core of |
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> stable packages |
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> b. Skip stabilization requests and let the KEYWORDS revert from |
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> stable to ~ by attrition. |
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> There may be other approaches. Both 2a and 2b have |
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> advantages/disadvantages and their technical problems. |
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> Anything else? |
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3. Supported hardare |
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We might want to reduce the number of systems/profiles we support. For |
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example, we could drop ppc32/32bit userland and just support |
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ppc64/{32|64}bit userland. |
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Here is list from the ppc handbook: |
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a) Apple NewWorld Machines: Power/PowerPC microprocessors (G3, G4, G5) |
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such as iMac, eMac, iBook PowerBook, Xserver, PowerMac |
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b) Apple OldWorld machines: Apple Machines with an Open Firmware |
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revision less than 3, such as the Beige G3s, PCI PowerMacs and PCI |
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PowerBooks. PCI-based Apple Clones should also be supported. |
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c) Genesi: Pegasos I/II, Open Desktop Workstation, Efika |
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d) IBM: RS/6000, iSeries, pSeries |
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4. Misc: List what needs to be done? |
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a) documentation: wiki, handbook, etc |
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b) ?? |
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Thanks, |
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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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