On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 03:36:14PM +0200, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > > On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Hartmut Koptein wrote: > > > We aren't many powerpc developers. Debian is currently in a critical state > > for new patches - some maintainers decided to delay the upload to unstable. > > Just an idea... why don't introduce a 'porter'? That is, debian developers > probably have too much on their minds to port every piece of software for > every platform, so instead each platform should have its own porters, that > should not be package-specific, unless the package itself is a beast in > porting. The developer community could split the list of packages that > need porting and assign a number to each porter -hopefully not too small > but not too big either, I believe a number around 20-30 should be ok. If a > porter is idle for more than an allowed ammount of time, then he is put in > suspension, and someone takes his work.... Anyway, the details could be > discussed, but the fact is that IMHO there is a need for something like > this, esp. in non-intel platforms. I leave it for you developers to pass > this on th the devel list.
We already have porters. I started as one. You don't need a package to register as a developer; you just need a way to help. > to comment on this, a porter should be much more versatile than an auto > porting system. For one, I doubt that this system can fix bugs. No, but already working packages can be recompiled at new versions automatically. > > (if you like, you can do the whole stuff from contrib/non-free, too) > > as a matter of fact, that is what I have started doing. I have already > done qt1.42, glib 1.1.12, gtk 1.1.12, mpg123, xephem, xfractint, and am in > the process of doing a ppc kde snapshot (have already done kdesupport and > libs), egcs 1.1.1 (boy this is a beast) freeamp and amp (these two > build fien but have the usual endianness problems, which means they only > produce garbage in 2.1.1xx kernels, although someone with a 2.1.24 > kernel, could use them with no problem I think), and whatever else > remains... What are you doing to egcs 1.1.1, out of curiousity? And is there really no 1.1.1 in the archive yet for powerpc? If there is, my apologies; I've gotten very behind lately. I'll try to update my local source tree. Dan /--------------------------------\ /--------------------------------\ | Daniel Jacobowitz |__| CMU, CS class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer __ Part-Time Systems Programmer | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \--------------------------------/ \--------------------------------/
