Re: [gentoo-dev] s390 status

[Joshua Brindle <method@gentoo.org>]

Why didn't you bring this up last week before we voted to drop s390 
support today?

Joshua

Michael Imhof wrote:

> Seemant Kulleen wrote:
>
>> Before Randy left, he'd promised to give me access to his s390, but that
>> never materialised, so at this point I'd say there's no access.  Seeing
>> as it's effectively an unmaintained port with no ETA on Randy, I say
>> either remove s390 from KEYWORDS which it blocks or stable it and let
>> the fallout happen when s390 returns to being an active port.
>
>
> I think this one is not clear. Randy had access to it's "own" machine 
> where he did development etc.
> If access to an s390/zSeries is needed i can provide it.
> Randy and i had the idea of porting gentoo to zSeries and both got 
> access to different machines. The one from Randy was at his 
> university. The one i have access to is owned by a company that does 
> development for zSeries.
>
> The idea behind it was:
> Randy had a devlopment machine where he could tweak and work. When he 
> completed the first set of full stages we wanted to install Gentoo on 
> the Machine (better said partitions) i have access to and use those 
> partitions for providing access to s390 to devs.
>
>
> Another thing that makes me sad is that people who were very involved 
> in this port now have no problem to just let it die.
>
>
> So if there are ppl who want to maintain this port. Access to hardware 
> is here...
>
>
> Regards
> Michael



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