Re: [gentoo-dev] taking a break from arches stabilization

[Alexis Ballier]

On Mon, 10 Jul 2017 19:22:20 +0200
Agostino Sarubbo <ago@g.o> wrote:

> Hi all.
>
> every time that I attach my tmux session to see what happens on irc,
> I always see the same discussion about the 'minor' arches status.
> Since I joined gentoo(2011) I worked on all arches except hppa, I put
> more effort in amd64 and less where I saw other people work on it
> (arm,alpha) But every time the magic phrase is that those arches are
> unmaintained.
>
> Now, since I work on these arches just to help, i.e. I don't have any
> business and I do non have any installation of those arches and the
> work I'm doing is not appreciated at all I decided to stop for now.
> If your dream is to put sparc and ia64 to ~arch, go ahead, I have no
> objections.
> I will take a break also from amd64 and x86...let's see how things
> will change.
>

Thanks for your work. It is appreciated. I respect your decision that
your time might be better spent by not trying to artificially maintain
some arches alive when you're clearly the only one doing the work and
caring about them.

There's an annoying side effect of open source communities that I've
came to witness a lot: When you do your work too well, nobody feels the
need to help by contributing, and you're essentially left alone.


Alexis.