Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 09:37:12 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> Subject: Re: HEADS UP! KSE needs more attention Message-ID: <40C48BA8.6090005@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <p06020439bce9548970a4@[128.113.24.47]> References: <40C36D31.4010003@freebsd.org> <20040606193510.GA95886@dhcp50.pn.xcllnt.net> <40C37F3C.1050602@freebsd.org> <20040606211249.GC96607@dhcp50.pn.xcllnt.net> <40C390C4.1000609@freebsd.org> <p06020439bce9548970a4@[128.113.24.47]>
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Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 3:46 PM -0600 6/6/04, Scott Long wrote: > >> >> At this point, I'm going to advocate that Alpha be dropped from >> Tier-1 status for 5.3 and 5-STABLE and no longer be a blocking >> item for releases. ... As I said back then, demotion is not a >> terminal condition, and I would be thrilled if someone comes >> forward in the future and brings the platform back up to date. > > > I think you have to officially demote it, with emphasis on the > point that "demotion is not a terminal condition". Then, if some > developer(s) show up and implement all the missing pieces, we > can happily announce it back in tier 1. > > But for now, say that it *IS* demoted. Not that you're advocating > that we think about maybe demoting it in the future unless someone > offers to start looking into the missing pieces. > > At the moment, it probably also makes sense to demote sparc64, > even though I own one of those. Not that we have anything against > it, but as a practical matter we haven't hit "critical mass" on it > just yet. Since I am interested in sparc64, I can take that as a > goal to help make it a tier-1 platform by 5.4-release... > One thing to note is that whatever platforms get dropped from tier-1 status will have a high probablility of not getting updated with the upcoming binutils/gcc/gdb update that is coming. Therefore, if we are going to drop a platform, we had better be very serious about it since bringing it back up might be hard. Scott
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