In practice, whether or not i386 will be dropped as release archticture in bullseye will likely be decided by whether I will stay the only committed porter, or whether other people will ASAP send (belatedly) replies to the proter roll call [1].
This discussion started due to lack of people testing debian-installer on older i386 hardware.[2] "test d-i regularly" and related items from the porter roll call would be suitable for people who are looking for a way to contribute to Debian. cu Adrian [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2020/11/msg00025.html [2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-cd/2020/12/msg00000.html