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On 09/12/11 04:09, Joshua Kinard wrote: |
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> Hey all, |
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> I just want to take a minute to thank Matt Turner (mattst88) for |
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> all his hard work and leadership in keeping Gentoo/MIPS alive |
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> within the project. |
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> It has been a long, tough road for the MIPS port of Gentoo. Our |
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> hardware is quirky, extremely diversified, sometimes archaic, and |
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> not the easiest in the world to understand. With my time having |
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> been limited over the past two or so years, we had regressed a |
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> fair bit, and the MIPS port as a whole has largely been |
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> leaderless. Thus we became a thorn in the side of many a developer, |
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> many of whom I sure asked the question, "Why are we still |
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> supporting this oddball architecture?". |
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> Matt has stepped up to the plate and gotten things fixed up and |
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> working again, a task that I honestly felt was becoming more and |
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> more of a long-shot with each passing week. We have new stages -- |
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> in all ABIs and two (or three now?) ISAs, proper multilib support, |
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> our bug count is actually going down, and possibly new install |
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> media on the way. None, I repeat, none of this would have been |
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> possible without Matt's leadership and drive to make the MIPS port |
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> relevant once more. |
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> So please join me in thanking Matt for his hard work, time, and |
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> leadership in making Gentoo/MIPS a viable element of the Gentoo |
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> project one again! |
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> Thanks Matt! |
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Great, maybe I'll be running Gentoo on my Yeeloong then in the future :) |
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Marijn |
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