Re: [gentoo-dev] Of Mips and Devs [Was: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January]

2008-01-11 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 11 January 2008, Kumba wrote: Mike Frysinger wrote: that certainly sounds reasonable to me. if the stable cant be maintained, let the common workflow of developers transition it back to ~arch until someone has the time to keep arch usable. changing profiles.desc accordingly

Re: [gentoo-dev] Of Mips and Devs [Was: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January]

2008-01-10 Thread Alin Năstac
Mike Frysinger wrote: 3. Should Gentoo even continue to support mips? i see dropping keywords as a very last resort. getting a port *back* into the tree is a *tremendous* amount of work (i went through it and it was hell), while keeping ~arch alive is a sliver of effort and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Of Mips and Devs [Was: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January]

2008-01-10 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 10 January 2008, Alin Năstac wrote: Mike Frysinger wrote: 3. Should Gentoo even continue to support mips? i see dropping keywords as a very last resort. getting a port *back* into the tree is a *tremendous* amount of work (i went through it and it was hell), while keeping

Re: [gentoo-dev] Of Mips and Devs [Was: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January]

2008-01-10 Thread Kumba
Mike Frysinger wrote: that certainly sounds reasonable to me. if the stable cant be maintained, let the common workflow of developers transition it back to ~arch until someone has the time to keep arch usable. changing profiles.desc accordingly should be done ahead of time. perhaps a new

Re: [gentoo-dev] Of Mips and Devs [Was: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January]

2008-01-10 Thread Stuart Longland
Kumba wrote: Mike Frysinger wrote: that certainly sounds reasonable to me. if the stable cant be maintained, let the common workflow of developers transition it back to ~arch until someone has the time to keep arch usable. changing profiles.desc accordingly should be done ahead of time.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Of Mips and Devs [Was: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January]

2008-01-10 Thread Alec Warner
Continuing on a side angle. I have a 300mhz Octane I'll ship to someone in the US if they need more mips hardware. If you ask nice I might even pay for the shipping. I haven't booted it in ages but it used to work ;) -Alec On 1/10/08, Stuart Longland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kumba wrote:

Re: [gentoo-dev] Of Mips and Devs [Was: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January]

2008-01-09 Thread Kumba
Well, I guess it's something that's been needing to be faced for some time now, as difficult as it is to do. Regardless of the accusations and counter-accusations flying around in this thread, I'll just go ahead and state the fact that yes, we are a slacker arch. Why? Because there's just

Re: [gentoo-dev] Of Mips and Devs [Was: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January]

2008-01-09 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 09 January 2008, Kumba wrote: Well, I guess it's something that's been needing to be faced for some time now, as difficult as it is to do. Regardless of the accusations and counter-accusations flying around in this thread, I'll just go ahead and state the fact that yes, we are a