On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 07:16:00PM +0100, Christoph Biedl wrote: > luigi burdo wrote... > > > Im thinking to start a petition about ... "dont kill debian penguins on > > powerpc" > > Don't. The release team folks are not politicians who get convinced by > a lot of noise. Unless I completely misunderstand their position, the > only question that matters is: Can we (as the Debian project) be sure > powerpc will have backing until EOL stretch (somewhen 2020)? > > The right answer is to create trust for this, not whining around. > > The best thing that could happen right now was a company approaching > Debian, emphasizing the importance of the powerpc architecture for > their business, and declaring they will hire two Debian Developers who > will contribute to the project as part of their job. But let's not > hope for a miracle. > > A remaining idea was was to appeal and ask for a grace peroid. This > appeal requires substantiation: Several people would have to sign > this, people who are well-established contributors to the Debian > project so it is certain they can do the job and their enthusiasm > will last (I wouldn't expect I would qualify for that). And during > that grace period, some two or three weeks, we, the powerpc people, > show significant progress by fixing all the open issues. The fact > #832931 did not get resolved in due course was one of things that hit > the reputation quite badly.
I just got a G4 machine last week and did a succesful build of mariadb. I sent an update to the bug report and will try to do the build on a porter box. Cascardo. > > Even if the appeal is unsuccessful on any stage, a clean backlog will > certainly help to have jessie-LTS for powerpc, and re-entry as well. > So please start cracking. > > Christoph
