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On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 10:22 AM, Agostino Sarubbo <ago@g.o> wrote: |
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> Hi all. |
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> every time that I attach my tmux session to see what happens on irc, I always |
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> see the same discussion about the 'minor' arches status. |
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> Since I joined gentoo(2011) I worked on all arches except hppa, I put more |
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> effort in amd64 and less where I saw other people work on it (arm,alpha) |
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> But every time the magic phrase is that those arches are unmaintained. |
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> Now, since I work on these arches just to help, i.e. I don't have any business |
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> and I do non have any installation of those arches and the work I'm doing is |
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> not appreciated at all I decided to stop for now. |
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> If your dream is to put sparc and ia64 to ~arch, go ahead, I have no |
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> objections. |
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> I will take a break also from amd64 and x86...let's see how things will |
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> change. |
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I'm really sorry to hear that, but I agree that the best way to for |
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people to realize how valuable you are is to take a step back and let |
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them see the hole left by your absence. |
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For what it's worth, Jack Morgan was recently getting his sparc and |
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ia64 systems back up, but then decided to retire instead when he saw |
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all of the discussions about dropping the architectures he cares |
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about. |
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Thank you for all of the work you've done. |
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