I'm willing to support somehow. I own several PowerPC (G4 & G5) machines and could also spent some time for doing testings.
I studied IT in 2000 and since then I haven’t spent much time on real IT stuff. Only IS Service- and Release Mgmt so far. I even don’t remember the last time i installed Eclipse or similar IDEs. If someone is able and willing to do some more fancy stuff on PowerPC arch, I could donate one or two of my machines. They are all located in Switzerland. This would be a much better idea than to let them gather dust in a corner. Just let me know how I could support you. Regards Dragan > Am 04.11.2016 um 19:34 schrieb Christoph Biedl > <[email protected]>: > > Herminio Hernandez Jr. wrote... > >> To say that no one stepped forward is not true. Adrian stepped up >> and asked to be the porter for PowerPC. > > Digging in the past isn't very helpful, but there one thing I'd like > to understand: Nobody responded to the initial role call in August. > Some folks had done this for jessie some two years ago. Who were they? > Are they still around? Did they silently disappear, or did they sign > off somewhat formally? > > I was quite shocked to learn so few people are backing this > architecture. I'm afraid I couldn't spend more time on this but real > life was pretty tough in the past weeks, and my job is slowly killing > me. > > And personally I'm cut as well - with powerpc I finally saw a niche > where I could do something useful without interference of the Debian > bullies. Some boxes are on their way to me, I had plans to rebuild the > entire archive on G4 CPU systems since appearently there are more > issues that don't show on the G5 buildds - I'm not sure how much of > this I will still do. > > Also I consider big-endian architectures crucial: There still is a > tremendous amount of endianness bugs in the code, powerpc helps to > detect them. > > Christoph
