are you saying that currently the main issue is lack of compute resources?
-A On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 11:36:14PM -0500, Isaac David wrote: > Le lun. 24 avril 2017 à 17:01, Bill Auger a écrit : > > it should be addressed that the status and future of the arm port are > > completely in the air at the moment > > they are, but probably not for the reasons you might think. > > the website paused reporting on updates to arm on Feb 04, but they had > been arriving smoothly behind the scenes until a couple weeks ago, > when I lost the ability to compile on a half-decent machine. I've been > slowly trying to regain ground, pushing some overdue packages as I > write, but it's become clear that my laptop can't keep up with the > task. adding to the grievance, I no longer use any arm devices. maybe > it's time for others to step in? > > > i had to note that the EOMA68 libre-tea card are promised to ship > with > > parabola pre-installed so it would be reasonable to support arm even > > if only for that device > > this is what frightens me the most, the idea of hundreds of users > being greeted with a distro that was already dead by the time they > receive their devices. I even bought a card, but if the port can't be > maintained so be it. maybe I will be able to revive the effort using > that very EOMA68 card, supposing that won't be much more unpleasant > than doing qemu on the build machine I used to use. > > also, not that you asked but, I would refuse to receive > Parabola-sponsored hardware after seeing all the recent hassle; > although I wouldn't mind being invited to use a hypothetical build > server under other hackers' responsibility. > > -- > Isaac David > GPG: 38D33EF29A7691134357648733466E12EC7BA943 > > > _______________________________________________ > Dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.parabola.nu/mailman/listinfo/dev -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ my GPG Public Key: https://files.grapentin.org/.gpg/public.key ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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