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Hey all, |
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I just want to take a minute to thank Matt Turner (mattst88) for all his |
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hard work and leadership in keeping Gentoo/MIPS alive within the project. |
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It has been a long, tough road for the MIPS port of Gentoo. Our hardware is |
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quirky, extremely diversified, sometimes archaic, and not the easiest in the |
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world to understand. With my time having been limited over the past two or |
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so years, we had regressed a fair bit, and the MIPS port as a whole has |
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largely been leaderless. Thus we became a thorn in the side of many a |
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developer, 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 working |
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again, a task that I honestly felt was becoming more and more of a long-shot |
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with each passing week. We have new stages -- in all ABIs and two (or three |
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now?) ISAs, proper multilib support, our bug count is actually going down, |
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and possibly new install media on the way. None, I repeat, none of this |
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would have been possible without Matt's leadership and drive to make the |
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MIPS port relevant once more. |
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So please join me in thanking Matt for his hard work, time, and leadership |
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in making Gentoo/MIPS a viable element of the Gentoo project one again! |
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Thanks Matt! |
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Joshua Kinard |
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Gentoo/MIPS |
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kumba@g.o |
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4096R/D25D95E3 2011-03-28 |
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"The past tempts us, the present confuses us, the future frightens us. And |
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our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast, terrible in-between." |
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--Emperor Turhan, Centauri Republic |
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