1 |
Hi all, |
2 |
|
3 |
TL;DR: We really need help! There aren't many developers in Gentoo |
4 |
Currently interested in working on Itanium. Come hang around in #gentoo-ia64 |
5 |
on libera.chat (IRC) if you're interested in helping. |
6 |
|
7 |
As discussed in the recent Gentoo Council meeting [0], concerns were raised |
8 |
about the status of Itanium (IA64) and I agreed to write to gentoo-dev to |
9 |
assess the level of interest & put out a call for volunteers. |
10 |
|
11 |
What we need from volunteers is at least one of the following: |
12 |
- Package testers to perform "keywording" (verifying a package compiles and ideally |
13 |
passes tests on IA64) |
14 |
- An advocate for the arch/port (it's hard to be motivated for |
15 |
something not working unless we know _someone_ out there is affected |
16 |
or cares) |
17 |
- Possibly general work on reporting bugs upstream, triaging failures, |
18 |
and even trying to fix them where possible (but it's okay to not |
19 |
be an expert in IA64 internals). |
20 |
- Folks simply using IA64 on Gentoo to let us know! |
21 |
- Anything else if you think it'd help the port effort. |
22 |
|
23 |
But ultimately, if you're using IA64, you can help in some way. |
24 |
|
25 |
There were rumours of GCC support being deprecated (and subsequent |
26 |
removal) [2][3] but this does NOT appear to have happened so far [4]. |
27 |
|
28 |
It might be worth a volunteer could investigate setting up |
29 |
CI for GCC upstream (and possibly glibc if they need it). |
30 |
|
31 |
Gentoo does have a machine ("guppy") for performing development |
32 |
work on, but we need people to actually use it. |
33 |
|
34 |
(This is a good time to note that friends and users of "alternative |
35 |
hardware" are welcome to join e.g. #gentoo-ia64, #gentoo-alpha, |
36 |
#gentoo-arm, #gentoo-hppa, #gentoo-sparc, and #gentoo-embedded too!) |
37 |
|
38 |
[0] https://projects.gentoo.org/council/meeting-logs/20220109-summary.txt |
39 |
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Gentoo/comments/s0emlj/trying_to_boot_latest_ia64_release/ |
40 |
[2] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-IA-64-GCC-Deprecation |
41 |
[3] https://gcc.gnu.org/legacy-ml/gcc/2019-06/msg00125.html |
42 |
[4] https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=ia64 |
43 |
|
44 |
best, |
45 |
sam |