[gentoo-dev] Meeting of the ppc/ppc64 teams: Monday Aug 4, 2014 @20:00 UTC

[gentoo-dev] Meeting of the ppc/ppc64 teams: Monday Aug 4, 2014 @20:00 UTC

[Anthony G. Basile]

Hi everyone,

I'm email gentoo-dev@ because I'm trying to hit up as many devs as 
possible.  Hopefully you've seen the recent discussions about what to do 
with ppc/ppc64 given the low manpower.  Let's get interested people 
meeting in #gentoo-powerpc on Monday Aug 4, 2014 @20:00 UTC. If there 
are no objections, I'll chair the first meeting so here's the agenda so far:

1. Let's reconstitute the team and elect a lead.

2. How should we address the low manpower issue.  At least two solutions 
have been proposed so far:
     a. Drop of many stable keywords to ~arch while retaining a core of 
stable packages
     b. Skip stabilization requests and let the KEYWORDS revert from 
stable to ~ by attrition.

There may be other approaches.  Both 2a and 2b have 
advantages/disadvantages and their technical problems.

Anything else?

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Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened]
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Meeting of the ppc/ppc64 teams: Monday Aug 4, 2014 @20:00 UTC

[Jack Morgan]

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On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 09:37:10AM -0400, Anthony G. Basile wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I'm email gentoo-dev@ because I'm trying to hit up as many devs as 
> possible.  Hopefully you've seen the recent discussions about what to do 
> with ppc/ppc64 given the low manpower.  Let's get interested people 
> meeting in #gentoo-powerpc on Monday Aug 4, 2014 @20:00 UTC. If there 
> are no objections, I'll chair the first meeting so here's the agenda so far:
> 
> 1. Let's reconstitute the team and elect a lead.
> 
> 2. How should we address the low manpower issue.  At least two solutions 
> have been proposed so far:
>      a. Drop of many stable keywords to ~arch while retaining a core of 
> stable packages
>      b. Skip stabilization requests and let the KEYWORDS revert from 
> stable to ~ by attrition.
> 
> There may be other approaches.  Both 2a and 2b have 
> advantages/disadvantages and their technical problems.
> 
> Anything else?
 

3. Supported hardare

We might want to reduce the number of systems/profiles we support. For
example, we could drop ppc32/32bit userland and just support
ppc64/{32|64}bit userland.

Here is list from the ppc handbook:

a) Apple NewWorld Machines: Power/PowerPC microprocessors (G3, G4, G5)
   such as iMac, eMac, iBook PowerBook, Xserver, PowerMac
b) Apple OldWorld machines: Apple Machines with an Open Firmware 
   revision less than 3, such as the Beige G3s, PCI PowerMacs and PCI
   PowerBooks. PCI-based Apple Clones should also be supported.
c) Genesi: Pegasos I/II, Open Desktop Workstation, Efika
d) IBM: RS/6000, iSeries, pSeries


4. Misc: List what needs to be done? 

a) documentation: wiki, handbook, etc
b) ??



Thanks,

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Jack Morgan
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