Bruce A. Mah wrote:
If memory serves me right, Ceri Davies wrote:
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 05:41:50AM +0200, Andre Oppermann wrote:
Bruce A. Mah wrote:
If memory serves me right, Andre Oppermann wrote:
andre 2006-05-12 02:54:03 UTC
FreeBSD doc repository (src committer)
Modified files:
en index.xsl
Log:
Alpha has left the building. Add ARM and rearrange the list of
architectures
a bit.
I wonder if the !alpha part was a little premature? Yes, the alpha
kernel bits are gone from HEAD, but they're still around on RELENG_5 and
RELENG_6, and we're still planning to do releases from both of those
codelines. The first release that won't include alpha will be 7.0, and
its release cycle doesn't even *start* for over a year.
Just a thought...
There are like two remaining Alpha users and we most likely won't gain
any new ones in the foreseeable future. Though we are compiling releases
according to jhb it isn't even clear they actually work on Alpha. It's
not actively maintained anymore. It really has left the building and there
is no point in advertising it on our homepage instead of on some random
tombstone somewhere out in the past architectures graveyard.
That's as may be, but you really should have gotten approval from a doc
committer for this commit. Bruce is one, he disagrees, you should back
it out.
Just for the record, I didn't even notice what set of commit bits andre
has, and I would have sent exactly the same comment even if he was a
member of doceng@ or [EMAIL PROTECTED] :-)
It's also true that the sun is still going to come up tomorrow no matter
what winds up on the homepage, so I'd like people not to get *too*
worked up over this, regardless of how they feel.
Peace,
Bruce.
Yes, not the end of the world, but I would like alpha to be put back on
the page until we stop generating release and support for it. CVS HEAD
really has little relevancy to what is on the webpage; what happens
there doesn't become a realized part of the OS until a release is cut
from it.
Ideally there would be a www.freebsd.org/alpha that has a note descibing
it as approaching end-of-life, and a www.freebsd.org/arm that describes
what we mean when we say that we support it.
Scott
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