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Date:      Sat, 14 Nov 2015 11:54:33 -0600
From:      Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
To:        Elizabeth Myers <elizabeth@interlinked.me>
Cc:        "Brian McGovern (bmcgover)" <bmcgover@cisco.com>, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@mail.turbofuzz.com>, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de>, Anna Wilcox <AWilcox@wilcox-tech.com>, "sparc64@freebsd.org" <sparc64@freebsd.org>, Sean Bruno <sbruno@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arch <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Sparc64 doesn't care about you, and you shouldn't care about Sparc64
Message-ID:  <20151114175433.GA19271@lonesome.com>
In-Reply-To: <5646D19C.9010304@interlinked.me>
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On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 12:15:56AM -0600, Elizabeth Myers wrote:
> If that constitutes "project resources," then I suppose you are
> instructing people, "go spend your time doing something more productive?"

In the principle of fairness, let me play devil's advocate for a moment.

 - it does take some time for re@ to release and test sparc64 images.

 - having sparc64 in 'make universe' does require developers to spend
   more time regression-testing their (non-sparc64) changes.

OTOH once an architecture is removed from 'make universe' it's effectively
dead, as bitrot sets in instantly.

mcl



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