On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 08:51:05AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > At http://www.freebsd.org/donations/wantlist.html, the FreeBSD > > developers have a list of computer-related stuff they could use to > > improve their work on the FreeBSD operating system. I think this is a > > However, Debian could indeed use quite some help through donations but > we don't propagate our needs. > > For example, there is no powerpc machine with chroot access since the > hard disk in voltaire isn't large enough. Also voltaire is the only > PowerPC machine, and if it fails we're doomed. A second PowerPC > machine with a large disk could probably be helpful. > > Also there are no public accessible mips and mipsel machines at the > moment, even though this is worked on. > > The sh3/4/eb port is stalled. Once it is restarted some network > connected machines would be helpful. > > For the Hurd there are also no public accessible machines. However, I > heard that the Hurd is not yet stable enough to provide a network > connected self-hosting machine. > > I could imagine that some people who spend time on improving the > debian-installer could use some non-ia32 machines as well, but I don't > really know.
this list here seems like a good starting place for a donations list. additionally, the donations in this list would not just benefit individual people like the freebsd list, but rather would benefit the whole project. -- gram
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