Re: [gentoo-dev] The status of the 'minor' arches in gentoo

2013-02-18 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Agostino Sarubbo wrote: > Now, imho, we have 2 choice: > > 1)Support them with an iso or at least a manual if we can't do an handbook > 2)Lose the stable keyword and don't waste manpower anymore. > > What do you think about? I haven't seen many problems, except on

Re: [gentoo-dev] The status of the 'minor' arches in gentoo

2013-02-18 Thread Raúl Porcel
On 02/17/13 17:03, Agostino Sarubbo wrote: > In the last time I'm helping some other arches (also arches which I have no > interest) because they appears understaffed. > > Days ago, I tried to make a virtual machine with qemu, for SH since the dev- > machine[1] is a bit slow; well, I discovered w

Re: [gentoo-dev] The status of the 'minor' arches in gentoo

2013-02-18 Thread Markos Chandras
On 17 February 2013 22:46, Anthony G. Basile wrote: > On 02/17/2013 11:03 AM, Agostino Sarubbo wrote: >> >> In the last time I'm helping some other arches (also arches which I have >> no >> interest) because they appears understaffed. >> >> Days ago, I tried to make a virtual machine with qemu, fo

Re: [gentoo-dev] The status of the 'minor' arches in gentoo

2013-02-17 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 02/17/2013 11:03 AM, Agostino Sarubbo wrote: In the last time I'm helping some other arches (also arches which I have no interest) because they appears understaffed. Days ago, I tried to make a virtual machine with qemu, for SH since the dev- machine[1] is a bit slow; well, I discovered we ha

Re: [gentoo-dev] The status of the 'minor' arches in gentoo

2013-02-17 Thread Markos Chandras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 02/17/2013 09:30 PM, Agostino Sarubbo wrote: > On Sunday 17 February 2013 13:14:28 Alec Warner wrote: >> It is not clear to me why you would email the -dev list about >> these arches, vapier is pretty responsive over email and irc. > > I don't gu

Re: [gentoo-dev] The status of the 'minor' arches in gentoo

2013-02-17 Thread Markos Chandras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 02/17/2013 08:40 PM, Agostino Sarubbo wrote: > On Sunday 17 February 2013 20:22:00 Markos Chandras wrote: >> I am not sure what are you trying to prove here. > > I point out that there is not iso, no manual, no manpower. No manual does not mean

Re: [gentoo-dev] The status of the 'minor' arches in gentoo

2013-02-17 Thread Agostino Sarubbo
On Sunday 17 February 2013 13:14:28 Alec Warner wrote: > It is not > clear to me why you would email the -dev list about these arches, > vapier is pretty responsive over email and irc. I don't guess is a good idea have a private conversation and then drop an arch... -- Agostino Sarubbo / ago -at

Re: [gentoo-dev] The status of the 'minor' arches in gentoo

2013-02-17 Thread Alec Warner
On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Agostino Sarubbo wrote: > On Sunday 17 February 2013 19:36:16 Markos Chandras wrote: >> First you need to tell us what arches you think they are considered >> 'minor' and/or understaffed so we can finally document that. Then, in >> my opinion, the ideal approach w

Re: [gentoo-dev] The status of the 'minor' arches in gentoo

2013-02-17 Thread Agostino Sarubbo
On Sunday 17 February 2013 20:22:00 Markos Chandras wrote: > I am not sure what are you trying to prove here. I point out that there is not iso, no manual, no manpower. > No project page does not mean the arch is minor or dead or whatever. For me this means that there is no enough support. >

Re: [gentoo-dev] The status of the 'minor' arches in gentoo

2013-02-17 Thread Markos Chandras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 02/17/2013 07:43 PM, Agostino Sarubbo wrote: > On Sunday 17 February 2013 19:36:16 Markos Chandras wrote: >> First you need to tell us what arches you think they are >> considered 'minor' and/or understaffed so we can finally document >> that. The

Re: [gentoo-dev] The status of the 'minor' arches in gentoo

2013-02-17 Thread Agostino Sarubbo
On Sunday 17 February 2013 19:36:16 Markos Chandras wrote: > First you need to tell us what arches you think they are considered > 'minor' and/or understaffed so we can finally document that. Then, in > my opinion, the ideal approach would be to just drop the stable > keywords for them. http://www

Re: [gentoo-dev] The status of the 'minor' arches in gentoo

2013-02-17 Thread Markos Chandras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 02/17/2013 04:03 PM, Agostino Sarubbo wrote: > In the last time I'm helping some other arches (also arches which I > have no interest) because they appears understaffed. > > Days ago, I tried to make a virtual machine with qemu, for SH since > th

Re: [gentoo-dev] The status of the 'minor' arches in gentoo

2013-02-17 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 12:45 PM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > Joking aside, I can imagine architectures where it's preferable to set up a > stage directly from a running maintenance system (maybs s390???). Also, none > of my arm gadgets comes with a CD drive, so I had to e.g. prepare the stage on

Re: [gentoo-dev] The status of the 'minor' arches in gentoo

2013-02-17 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Sonntag, 17. Februar 2013, 17:03:43 schrieb Agostino Sarubbo: > In the last time I'm helping some other arches (also arches which I have no > interest) because they appears understaffed. > > Days ago, I tried to make a virtual machine with qemu, for SH since the dev- > machine[1] is a bit slow;

Re: [gentoo-dev] The status of the 'minor' arches in gentoo

2013-02-17 Thread William Hubbs
On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 05:03:43PM +0100, Agostino Sarubbo wrote: > Now, imho, we have 2 choice: > > 1)Support them with an iso or at least a manual if we can't do an handbook > 2)Lose the stable keyword and don't waste manpower anymore. We also have another choice if there is so little interest

[gentoo-dev] The status of the 'minor' arches in gentoo

2013-02-17 Thread Agostino Sarubbo
In the last time I'm helping some other arches (also arches which I have no interest) because they appears understaffed. Days ago, I tried to make a virtual machine with qemu, for SH since the dev- machine[1] is a bit slow; well, I discovered we have no ISO[2] available and there is no handbook[