As soon as i get my mac mini working i can test xubuntu. On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Micah Gersten <[email protected]> wrote: > On 08/01/2013 07:29 AM, Ho Wan Chan wrote: >> Hello Harald, >> >> 2013/8/1 Harald Sitter <[email protected]>: >>> On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Ho Wan Chan <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> However, a survey conducted by Russian Ubuntu users revealed that 80% >>>> of users agree to the decision of removing such images. >>> >>> ~700 votes casted; and the voters had not been properly informed as it >>> turns out. >> Well sure, they are not informed of the TECHNICAL side of things. But >> then, that's what a normal Ubuntu user would think of PowerPC. >>> >>>> So, I'm suggesting that we should change our attitude, and stop >>>> building PowerPC images. >>> >>> As has been done at about every non-virtual UDS since forever. Latest >>> conclusion (from I think the March Mumble Meeting) was that since >>> build problems do not really occur (unlike with ARM for example) we >>> want to keep it around for as long as we have someone testing the ISO. >>> That being said, I do not know anyone who spends considerable time on >>> Kubuntu for PowerPC, so I am not sure dropping PowerPC would have any >>> impact on the developers. I for one don't care. >>> >> If you don't care, why should we have it then? >>>> Don't forget, we aren't exactly Lubuntu, who wants to support every >>>> single old computer. >>>> Alternate images are what Lubuntu still wants while we have already > dropped it. >>>> Why should we drop alternate images if we can properly test it, as in >>>> coherence to our attitude? >>> >>> We didn't test them, that's why alternate was dropped. >> Think about this. We only have 1 tester for PowerPC. How many testers >> do we have for i386 and amd64? Alternate images can have a lot of >> testers. PowerPC will have problems. >>> >>>> So, what are the pros and cons of removing PowerPC image builds? >>>> >>>> Pros: >>>> >>>> Save testing time on PowerPC builds (and no need to wait for it at all >>>> before we can release betas or final releases) >>> >>> AFAIK we'd still have to wait for the other flavors and I don't think >>> we ever delayed a release for considerable amount of time because an >>> architecture that is not x86 based wasn't tested. >> Well, the only flavour who still supports PowerPC except us is >> Lubuntu, and that's because they really want to support PowerPC, and >> they actually spend time contacting release teams and testing even the >> dailies. Not in our case. >> <snip /> > For what it's worth, I'd like to add PowerPC images back to Xubuntu if > and when we get a tester to commit to the images. Kubuntu seems to > already have that. I see great value in having something easy to use > for people to resurrect their old Mac hardware that Apple abandoned. > > Micah > > > -- > kubuntu-devel mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel
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