On Monday 20 November 2006 13:54, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Dennis Gilmore (dennis@xxxxxxxx) said: > > I never said that sparc should be primary arch just that if it is needed > > hardware can be made available where ever it is needed and PPC can still > > be built when core is migrated to the new buildsys. so it need not > > become a secondary arch until we have everything in place for it to be > > 100% success. Unless niagara based systems start flooding the market > > place i don't see sparc as having a large user base. but i enjoy > > working on it. > > What I'm trying to say is that one of the things we're trying to solve with > the new arch policy is the hardware issue - we want people to be able to > interface with the Fedora build system with hardware that isn't in our > server locations. Even if there is a groundswell for Fedora/390, no one's > going to send us a mainframe (and, honestly, even if they were, I'm pretty > sure we wouldn't want to deal with it ;) ) - therefore, it's best to design > the policy so that it can work for community-supported arches who house the > hardware themselves. > > Bill :D that works also. i imagine a S390 is extremely expensive to run. -- ,-._|\ Dennis Gilmore, RHCE / \ Proud Australian \_.--._/ | Aurora | Fedora | v _______________________________________________ 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
