On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 09:06 -0600, Mike McGrath wrote: > On 11/15/06, Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 05:57:04AM -0600, David Woodhouse wrote: > > > > > I'm particularly interested in the decision to stop counting PowerPC as > > > a primary architecture. I've heard rumours that this decision was in > > > part because PPC was responsible for most of the recent release slippage > > > -- but that doesn't seem to be backed up by the slip announcements -- > > > the first one for FC6² lists only one PPC-specific issue in the five > > > problems that caused the slip, and the second one³ doesn't seem to > > > mention _anything_ that's specific to PPC. > > > > >From my perspective, one reason to relegate PPC to secondary is that > > when you're busy, *NO-ONE* looks at or works on PPC kernel bugs. > > Half the time I feel like I'm the only person looking at x86, but > > that's irrelevant -- I (and most other people who look at Fedora kernel > > bugs) have no PPC knowledge whatsoever. (And likely to stay that way). > > > > It's completely unacceptable to have an architecture be considered > > primary when we can't do a thing about any incoming bugs, especially > > when those bugs are of the form "my Mac doesn't boot". > > If they were "my sound doesn't work", it'd be a lesser issue, but they're > > nearly always the nasty "oh crap" species of bug. > > Just food for thought regarding PPC. I'm not an advocate for or > against PPC but I did want to point out that from our stats the PPC's > account for a very tiny percentage of our overall userbase > http://fedoraproject.org/awstats/stats/FC6-Nov-16.png (0.4%) On a > side note, I have no idea if this method of stats collecting really > works so take it for what it is :D That can't account for people getting things directly from mirrors. And if a certain large PowerPC company has an internal tier 1 mirror of Fedora you won't get any hits from there for PPC. Remember, 90% of all statistics are lies ;) That's certainly not to say that PPC isn't a smaller userbase than x86/x86_64. I think that's fairly common knowledge. I just happen to think the tracking doesn't give you the full picture for anything really. And I would guess that the userbase for everything is larger than what those statistics are saying. Whether it's accurately proportional can be debated forever. josh _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board-readonly mailing list fedora-advisory-board-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board-readonly
