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From: Daniel Campbell <zlg@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] taking a break from arches stabilization
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 19:31:21
Message-Id: e6ea2f14-8839-a571-5036-d4d635e3a31c@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] taking a break from arches stabilization by Agostino Sarubbo
1 On 07/10/2017 10:22 AM, Agostino Sarubbo wrote:
2 > Hi all.
3 >
4 > every time that I attach my tmux session to see what happens on irc, I always
5 > see the same discussion about the 'minor' arches status.
6 > Since I joined gentoo(2011) I worked on all arches except hppa, I put more
7 > effort in amd64 and less where I saw other people work on it (arm,alpha)
8 > But every time the magic phrase is that those arches are unmaintained.
9 >
10 > Now, since I work on these arches just to help, i.e. I don't have any business
11 > and I do non have any installation of those arches and the work I'm doing is
12 > not appreciated at all I decided to stop for now.
13 > If your dream is to put sparc and ia64 to ~arch, go ahead, I have no
14 > objections.
15 > I will take a break also from amd64 and x86...let's see how things will
16 > change.
17 >
18 Thanks for your efforts in stabilization. I try to make it a point to
19 thank people like you and Toralf since stabilization and arch testing
20 are both time-consuming, and probably frustrating to get the tooling
21 correct.
22
23 Take some time off! I'm sure Gentoo won't implode. :)
24
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