>> Looking at popcon - ohwell, better don't. HPPA looks bad there. >> We (well, I, I just assume you too) don't want to end up with a port >> thats run just for the fun of the porters ( :) ), so - is there real >> demand out there for a HPPA port? > Hard to say; everytime this comes up there are a couple people who > speakup, but we certainly don't get flooded with +1's.
Do they just do the usual "me too, its important" or do they actually help with the work? :) >> Also, add another question: Does HPPA stay on ftpmaster at all? How >> likely is it to get back to a state it can be included into another >> release? If the answer to that tends to be negative, it might be better >> to move it totally to debian-ports, in order to not have to support two >> different archives. > I suspect negative, if only because the hardware is no longer > being produced. (We also have buildd stability issues, which have been > shown to go away on other systems). Well. We did have m68k for an eternity. Long enough that many people said the last living machines of them are just buildds. :) > Also, one thing I just noticed is that ports seems to only have > unstable/experimental. For some reason I'd assumed "stable" releases > there were an option, but that does not appear to be the case. > That implies we'll have a bit more difficult of a time keeping the > port installable from ports, since we'll need to keep an installer > available that works w/ sid. Thats for the debian-port people to answer. *I* wouldnt think a stable release to be impossible, but its not my corner. >> Porter machines. They need to be available and maintained. Either by DSA >> if stuff stays in main archive, or by whoever, if it goes to ports. >> If we end up with just squeeze-hppa and have no hppa in unstable, a one >> box should do that, if it stays in unstable too, 2 or 3... > Yeah, we have paer for that. (It is currently down due to what appears > to be a failed disk, but that should get resolved this week). > If this moved to ports, I'm curious what the maintenance tasks are. Is > there a central admin team and/or infrastructure for ports? Not that I know, but not my corner again. Besides that, its the usual admin stuff. Keeping it running/updated... > Also - does debian-ports allow for non-DDs to do any tasks that DD > privs are generally required for (signing build logs, uploading > installer images, etc)? The active hppa porter team is non-DD-heavy, > and it would be nice to share the load. *AFAIK* this works on ports. Will not work on ftpmaster. So if you do want to share the load, move you want. -- bye, Joerg You know, boys, a nuclear reactor is a lot like a woman. You just have to read the manual and press the right buttons. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
