Re: [gentoo-project] Re: Council meeting 2015-04-14: call for agenda items

[James Le Cuirot <chewi@gentoo.org>]

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On Sun, 5 Apr 2015 14:50:44 -0500
William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org> wrote:

> > I wonder if maybe we should suggest to finally move
> > ia64/alpha/sparc to testing (as was done for mips, sh...) :/  
>  
> Also let's add ppc and ppc64 to this list; they were brought up in the
> message starting this discussion. I personally would vote for moving
> all of these arch's to exp status.

Recent discussions about which Java JDKs to continue supporting have
made me wonder just how many people are using these archs and how many
people are using Java on them. I am trying to nudge all non amd64/x86
archs towards icedtea so should we bother continuing to support IBM's
JDK given that it is proprietary, primarily there to cater for ppc(64),
and you have to register before you can even download it? Just how many
users are we going out of our way to support here? It makes me wish we
had something like Debian's popularity-contest.

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James Le Cuirot (chewi)
Gentoo Linux Developer

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